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Re:GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise by joe_the_user on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @04:03PM (#1476010)
Certainly the existence of the KDE-specific virtual file system is a terrible thing...
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Re:GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise by rbanffy on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @05:55PM (#1476381)
I really saddens me Plan/9 went nowhere (parts of it went everywhere ;-) )

I am uncomfortable having what amount to be sci-fi versions of Unix and VMS to chose from. What would be a cutting-edge, legacy-free OS these days?

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Re:GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise by eru on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @08:42PM (#1476670)
Exokernels: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/exo.html

Though sadly this page is from 1998. But there are some people who are still working on Exokernels. You can meet them here at HN.

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