Another Russ entirely, MIT and Plan 9 guy Russ Cox, has a blog new since January. His latest sees Plan 9 services supporting legacy systems with great backups on SHA1 hashes in the form of venti(8), an archival storage server with which Cox is intimately familiar.

Inferno® is a language runtime-cum-operating system from Vita Nuova®. Inferno was originally developed at Bell Labs, and shares fundamental design concepts with Plan 9®. Namely: 1) files as a basic and consistent unit of naming; 2) a unified and unifying file-oriented network protocol, and 3) the ability to customize into a useful perspective files as per-process (in turn, per-user,...