Ah, crap, I saw your reply only now :(. The Plan 9 documentation is pretty good, but 9front's introductory documents ( https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wik

Ah, crap, I saw your reply only now :(. The Plan 9 documentation is pretty good, but 9front's introductory documents ( https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/fqa https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/fqa ) are probably a little better to get your feet wet with. > Are Plan9 users mostly running on bare-metal or VMs? If the latter, would you recommend VMware, Xen or something else? Both, I guess... VirtualBox is the only one I tried it on. Its distributed nature makes it fairly easy to run it on a server and connect to that from a system running Plan 9 from User Space (see http://swtch.com/plan9port/ http://swtch.com/plan9port/ ), so that you also get a... well, a functional desktop, I guess.