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Re:Plan 9: why no compelling successor to Unix has got off t... by kqr2 on Saturday January 24, 2009 @05:53AM (#447995)
For anyone who wants to play with it, there appears to be a live CD:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html

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Re:Plan 9: why no compelling successor to Unix has got off t... by likpok on Saturday January 24, 2009 @10:25AM (#448159)
There are issues with the livecd. I couldn't get it to boot in modern VMware (they use version 4 or so). I recall having problems booting it on a physical system.

Not to dissuade people, but try and research which VMs/hardware it supports /before/ trying it out.

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