The successor to Research Unix was Plan 9 from Bell Labs
FOSDEM 2024 A better UNIX than UNIX isn't a UNIX at all
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21 Feb 2024 | 70
Linus Torvalds has honoured the LHC-frying weasel that died last week. The Linux lord paid his respects by naming this week's version of Linux, 4.6 rc6, "Charred Weasel" in this Git commit. Torvalds rates this week's effort, rc6 of Linux 4.6, as offering "nothing particularly scary". The only change he bothers to note in …