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+All the following is based only on a first, and quick glance only.
+
+We may want to have a look at Virtual Square / View-OS, and evaluate in which
+ways this is related / implemented / implementable / usable / useful in a Hurd
+environment, and even ;-) strive to collaborate with them.
+
+[[I|tschwinge]] found this project very much by chance: on LinkedIn, they
+posted a proposal for [DevRoom on Virtualization
+Technologies](http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=27213&type=member&item=31720076)
+for [[community/meetings/FOSDEM_2011]].  LinkedIn sends out such posts in very
+opaque emails from time to time (probably they'd look less opaque with a HTML
+mail user agent), and I even bothered to have a look at it, and follow the link
+to the web page, and not delete it straightway.
+
+So, I had a quick look at the project:
+
+This seems to be an amalgamation / combination of various virtualization
+mechanisms / projects / ideas.  Virtualization is here meant in a broad sense,
+including file system namespaces: our `chroot` / `settrans --chroot`;
+networking configurations: our pfinet override stuff; system configuration:
+subhurds?; current time, devices: likewise?; executable interpreter: our exec
+server override stuff; "stat" virtualization: fakeroot; etc.  -- They seem to
+do a lot of stuff that we also try to do / could do / can do.
+
+In fact, this looks a bit like they're trying to bring some more of the Hurd's
+[[hurd/concepts]] over to Unix / Linux, more than only the *usual VFS stuff*
+(translators / FUSE).
+
+Perhaps start reading with the *slides* linked below.
+
+  * <http://virtualsquare.org/>
+
+      * <http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/>
+
+  * Renzo Davoli, Michael Goldweber, [*View-OS: Change your View on
+    Virtualization*](http://www.cs.unibo.it/~renzo/view-os-lk2009.pdf),
+    Proc. of Linux Kongress, 2009
+
+      * [slides](http://www.cs.unibo.it/~renzo/view-os-lk2009-slides.pdf)