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Re:Plan 9: The way the future was by gioele on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @04:59AM (#3537362)
Plan 9 was and is too good to be ignored. Indeed many of its features are now a must in Linux systems (for example good support for private namespaces) and the p9fs, designed to be virtualizable and distributed, is getting serious traction in the virtualization world (see 9p virtio).

And Plan 9 also has the best mascot around!

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Re:Plan 9: The way the future was by mdwrigh2 on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @08:56AM (#3537900)
It helps that Eric Van Hensbergen, the guy behind 9p virtio, was a Plan 9 developer.
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Re:Plan 9: The way the future was by 4ad on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @02:05PM (#3539393)
s/was/is/

He was one of the guys that ported Plan 9 to the Blue Gene supercomputer. He has many active projects in the Plan 9 community.

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