[9fans] X device

[rob@plan9.bell-labs.com rob@plan9.bell-labs.com]

Yes, the X work is part of the standard Inferno distribution.
It supports the Linux, Solaris, and other Unix ports.
The Inferno graphics model is now, with minor modifications,
the core graphics system in Brazil, our in-house follow-on to
Plan 9, but we haven't put the X support in Brazil.  It doesn't
make too much sense anyway, because Brazil isn't hosted by
another system.  Instead, we have a Windows-based simulation
of a Brazil terminal, using completely different technology than
was used to get Inferno running under X.  It is essentially the
same, though, as what was used to get Inferno running under
Windows.  Again, the difference is whether you get to run your
own code on the machine with the frame buffer.

I cannot comment on whether you can adapt X to do anything.
I learned what I had to do get my stuff working, and then went
to a corner and licked my wounds.  I'm not going back in there.

-rob