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		kqr2 on Jan 24, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plan 9: why no compelling successor to Unix has go... For anyone who wants to play with it, there appears to be a live CD: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html

likpok on Jan 24, 2009 [–]

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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