From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7076ecd09f2775a7ddd4ece54c0cf70a@quintile.net> References: <7076ecd09f2775a7ddd4ece54c0cf70a@quintile.net> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:54:02 +0100 Message-ID: From: Conor Williams To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e013c61a02fea7804f7dc9f95 Subject: Re: [9fans] GSoC '14 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dba6faba-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --089e013c61a02fea7804f7dc9f95 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I am a little late on the reply to this Steve, but most of the ideas from the list below were observations turned suggestions of mine compiled from around 2003 when I was studying Plan 9. There would have been less code in the contrib at that stage... for one... fgb seems to have most of his work around the 2006-2008 time /Conor --------------------- - A device driver for Plan 9 for an unsupported device - A GUI builder for the Plan 9 control graphics library - Porting of the Tcl tool-kit Tk and the Tk GUI builder Xf - VRML support for the Httpd - Writing of an editor similar to Vi for Plan 9 - An Html front end to the PQ database system. This would involve adding PQ support to the Httpd - Java support for Plan 9 - A lockable screen saver for Plan 9 - Mpeg support for Plan 9 - Addition of load balancing support into Plan 9 On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > FWIW > > vi does run on plan9 - fgb did a curses port and > vim runs under that, various people turn in their graves > if you try to use it however. > > there is also a lockable screensaver called screenlock(1) > > what kind of MPEG support do you want? Audio support is not bad, > I have a port of an aac audio decoder and there is mp3 encoders > and decoders. > > Mpeg2 video should not be too hard, Mpeg4, H264, etc are nastier > but where do you stop. there is a new encoding standard per month > these days. > > -Steve > > --089e013c61a02fea7804f7dc9f95 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I am a little late on the reply to this Steve, but most of= the ideas from the list below were observations turned suggestions of mine= compiled from around 2003 when I was studying Plan 9.

There would have been less code in the contrib at that stage... for one... = fgb seems to have most of his work around the 2006-2008 time

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/Conor
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  • =C2=A0A device driver for Plan 9 for = an unsupported device
  • =C2=A0=C2=A0A GUI=C2=A0builder for the Plan 9 control= graphics library
  • Porting of the Tcl=C2= =A0tool-kit Tk and the Tk GUI=C2=A0builder Xf
  • VRML support for the Httpd
  • Writing of an editor similar to Vi for Plan = 9
  • An Html front end to the=C2=A0PQ=C2=A0database system. This would involve adding=C2=A0PQ=C2=A0support to the Httpd
  • Java support for Plan 9
  • =C2=A0A lockable screen saver for Plan 9
  • Mpeg support for Plan 9
  • Addition of load balancing support into Plan = 9

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Steve S= imon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
FWIW

vi does run on plan9 - fgb did a curses port and
vim runs under that, various people turn in their graves
if you try to use it however.

there is also a lockable screensaver called screenlock(1)

what kind of MPEG support do you want? Audio support is not bad,
I have a port of an aac audio decoder and there is mp3 encoders
and decoders.

Mpeg2 video should not be too hard, Mpeg4, H264, etc are nastier
but where do you stop. there is a new encoding standard per month
these days.

-Steve


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