From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:09:09 +0100 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition Topicbox-Message-UUID: acd8ba38-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 you have to be careful with these feature requests, some don't really bring plan 9 forward, because they are too generally useful and not plan 9 specific enough. On 11/20/16, Chris McGee wrote: > I like the idea of focusing on the functionality, not specific software, > that could go into a 5th edition. It seems that stepping back and rethinking > popular industry trends led to some of the unique and interesting decisions > that gave us plan9 in the first place. > > Here is what I'd like to see > -3D graphics (something akin to /dev/draw except for graphics pipelines) > -Location capabilities (gps, map drawing, routing) > -Mobile interface (clean, simple, optimized for small and touch screens) > -2D graphics editing (edit photographs or make raster art from scratch, > layers, antialiasing, filesystem for scripting) > -3D printing (manipulate 3D model data, output one of the standard formats > for printers) > -Knowledge/AI system (plug in statements, make inferences) > -Notifications (deliver events, alerts and reminders to my attention in a > consistent manner) > -Search quickly for files based on content (indices, also accessible via 9P, > there's a paper floating around about this) > -Easily find disk space statistics (free disk space for each file system) > -Single Instruction Multiple Data (language and compiler for writing > programs that can use these special instructions) > -Video playback and recording (support for most popular 3 codecs, including > one of the free ones, syncing of audio stream, record from camera and/or > screen) > -Clean HTML (not fully featured web browser, instead render existing HTML in > a clean, readable way, not unlike the various reader modes in popular web > browsers, convert to PDF/PS) > > I think that each of these can be done in the plan9 way with simple, > consistent and elegant implementations that integrate well with the rest of > the system. The focus is to enable capability and not necessarily to just > port existing software, repeating existing complexity and bloat. > > Chris > >> On Nov 19, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Charlie Lin wrote: >> >> Any features that should be incorporated into Plan 9? >> >> >>> On Nov 16, 2016 17:27, "Charlie Lin" wrote: >>> Any plans for Plan 9 5th edition? >>> >>> My desires: >>> ISO-compliant C compiler and preprocessor >>> Port other programming languages (especially Go) to here >>> Start a source code repository >>> Port Git, SVN, Mercurial, et cetera to here >