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From: Richard U ru@att...
Subject: [9fans] Linux pioneers! Time to clone Plan 9! (forw)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 23:13:42 -0700 (PDT)

>We need a new Linus to start writing a Plan 9 kernel.  GNU's Hurd doesn't
>go as far, as a cloned Plan 9 would.

for example, one of Plan 9's 3 central design principles is that the file
name space is customizable on a per-process basis.  in contrast, the Hurd
retains the Unix design choice that at any given time, every process 'sees'
the same file name space (modulo a file that is deleted while a process
still has it open and probably other minor situations).

I'm relatively new to 9 and to Hurd, so if that is wrong, say so.