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For those who are interested in Plan9, you may be interested in checking out the following:

* Plan9port (Plan 9 from User Space) ports a number of the Plan9 programs to Linux: http://swtch.com/plan9port/

* wmii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmii) is a tiling window manager that allows configuration through a Plan9-like filesystem. A number of people I know (myself included) were first introduced to the power of Plan 9 through wmii's extensive configurability.

* Go (the language) has borrowed a number of elements from Plan 9. One of the two main compilers (gc) traces its origin in the plan9 toolchain.

* Acme/Wily (the text editor). I'll have to confess that I never took to this much (as a Vim user), but give it a shot.

Plan9port claims to be a port to Unix like systems, not just Linux. The site lists OS X, SunOS, and several BSDs in addition to Linux.

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