> From: quanstro@quanstro.net
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:55:32 -0400
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?
> 
> > Does anyone work exclusively in plan 9 or is that not feasible so you think?
> 
> i do.  and many of the folks at the labs did.
> 
> since the subject is cd drive access, one of the things that i found much
> easier with plan 9 is cd access.  not only is it dead simple, and utterly
> seamless with the rest of the system, it's so much better than the author of
> cdparanoia whining to you about choices the designers of $unixsystem
> made.
> 
> - erik
> 

Thanks erik. I agree that cd access is easy, now that I know how. I'm going to try working in plan 9 as much as I can and continue learning about it.
If I could ask you another couple of questions.
I do use linux. I've started learning C programming. I have been using linux as the platform to learn on. I was thinking of changing over to plan 9 for this as well. Would you recommend doing this? I'm not thinking of it from a work viewpoint so that's not an issue, but I like the idea of being able to (hopefully, eventually) understand something as a whole and not just bits and bobs. As I understand it this is possible with plan 9?
Do you run plan 9 in a virtual machine or on native hardware?
Cheers,Steve.