Plan9

The technical papers published by the Plan9 group are truly inspirational and did influence GoboLinux to some extent. Plan9's ability to create custom filesystem views for different programs by binding and mounting files onto a process namespace, for instance, reflects a bit on GoboLinux Runner's design -- although that's more of a happy coincidence. Gobo doesn't have the ability to seamlessly overlay-mount remote programs and files (yet), but once that feature arrives we may have a more clear correspondence between the two.