I think people like plan9 more for it's minimalism rather than for it's special features. Also, there still isn't anything quite like 9p for other OSes. Althou

I think people like plan9 more for it's minimalism rather than for it's special features. Also, there still isn't anything quite like 9p for other OSes. Although many of them can mount 9p filesystems it doesn't match the VFS very well so it doesn't make a lot of sense to share device files. FUSE matches Linux's VFS closely but lacks authentication support so it isn't useful over a network without a special wrapper. Furthermore, a lot of these OSes rely on the setuid bit for a number of things which you can't have in an OS like plan9. That whole OS is just very different, it's not easy to emulate on something like Linux.