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Great reason to push more code out of the kernel and into user land
Is it HURD'n' time?
I think we should just resurrect Plan 9 instead.
Plan 9 is also monolithic, according to wikipedia. For BSD it depends.
I mean, you're right but I still want to see a modernized plan 9, I just think it would be neat.
that would be Inferno
Latest release was 9 years ago, not exactly what I'm looking for. 9front is probably closer to what I want than inferno.