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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:39:42 +0100
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 GSoC projects selected
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On 29 Apr 2011, at 2:22 pm, yy wrote:

> You can read a short abstract here:
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/yiyus/22001
>
> The main idea is to avoid the duplication of xlib dependent code in
> inferno, p9p, 9vx and drawterm and write a wsys device to use the
> window manager of the host system through a file server similar to
> rio(4). If the new x11 code will be a library or some sort of p9p's
> devdraw(1) and if the wsys device will be an inferno/drawterm/9vx
> kernel device or an external program serving 9P are open questions
> yet.
>
> Feel free to ask if you want to know more.

Oh, could be good.