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   by anant 16y ago

   For folks looking for a really fast and easy way to play around with Plan 9, I would encourage you to look at 9vx: http://swtch.com/9vx/ No virtual machine, just a tarball (available for freebsd, linux and mac os x) that uses vx32 ( http:
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   by anant 16y ago

   Although I cannot speak for Gamesalad in particular, don't underestimate the ability of tools to be able to create some great games, even in the absence of raw programming power. At Blizzard, rumor has it that the programming team calls it
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   by anant 16y ago

   Porting one of the fine Plan 9 based filesystems to Linux seems like an excellent operating systems project. This would directly benefit Glendix as many applications require these synthetic filesystems provided by the Plan 9 kernel. /net is
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   by anant 16y ago

   By convincing the right people that it was relevant to my course :) Also, Glendix was the culmination of my Bachelor "major project". Yes, it is sometimes possible to do useful work in academia. Gasp!
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   by anant 16y ago

   Disclaimer: I'm the author of the Glendix project. As someone already pointed out Glendix tries to bring binaries over to make Linux feel more Plan9-ish. Unfortunately, I no longer have the luxury of being a grad student and so my time thes