Re: [9fans] Image viewer

Re: [9fans] Image viewer

[Russ Cox]

> Before I "remake the wheel", are there any image viewers out that support 
> JPEG, PNG, etc. that have already been ported to Plan9?  I think I will start 
> there if not.  I'm not sure how big of a task porting such things as libjpeg 
> and libpng would be though ...

See the page(1) manual page.

> I'm eager to get my hands into this new OS as much as I can - the ideas 
> behind it do seem rather exciting - and as I'll be going to college next year 
> and starting in Computer Science I believe Plan9 would be a great environment 
> for me to use.  Right now I've only got it on my laptop - unfortunately all 
> of my other machines use Nvidia cards (Geforce2) or are Macintosh PPC.

We should be able to handle Nvidia.  Details are on the wiki
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/1

> Also, if anyone maintains a page of software that has been ported to Plan9, 
> could you please send me a link.

There's some stuff at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/plan9.html
and at http://www.caldo.demon.co.uk/plan9/soft/index.html.

Russ

Re: [9fans] Image viewer

[William Josephson]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:00:17PM -0500, Brandon Barker wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to Plan9 (I've been using Linux for a few years now), and I 
> just barely managed to create a new user after logging in as glenda.  I'd 
> like to start playing around with plan9 and maybe port some trivial 
> applications over to start out (I have some little experience with C (and 
> C++, but from what I hear Plan9 does not yet have a c++ compiler).

s/not yet/no longer/

And some of us like it that way :-p Well, I guess there is the gcc
port in progress.  I poty the poor bastard who has to port that.

> Also, if anyone maintains a page of software that has been ported to Plan9, 
> could you please send me a link.

Try:

	achille.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist
	www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc
	www.caldo.demon.co.uk

for starters.  The Plan 9 wiki, too.

[9fans] Image viewer

[Brandon Barker]

Hello, I'm new to Plan9 (I've been using Linux for a few years now), and I 
just barely managed to create a new user after logging in as glenda.  I'd 
like to start playing around with plan9 and maybe port some trivial 
applications over to start out (I have some little experience with C (and 
C++, but from what I hear Plan9 does not yet have a c++ compiler).

Before I "remake the wheel", are there any image viewers out that support 
JPEG, PNG, etc. that have already been ported to Plan9?  I think I will start 
there if not.  I'm not sure how big of a task porting such things as libjpeg 
and libpng would be though ...

I'm eager to get my hands into this new OS as much as I can - the ideas 
behind it do seem rather exciting - and as I'll be going to college next year 
and starting in Computer Science I believe Plan9 would be a great environment 
for me to use.  Right now I've only got it on my laptop - unfortunately all 
of my other machines use Nvidia cards (Geforce2) or are Macintosh PPC.

Also, if anyone maintains a page of software that has been ported to Plan9, 
could you please send me a link.

Thanks,
Brandon Barker