Opinion on plan9 and its rio desktop environment?
Opinion on plan9 and its rio desktop environment?
Levi Jenkins
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Samuel Russell
Why are you still shilling a (almost) dead OS?
Jayden Parker
Best OS. Instead we are stuck with trash and botnet CIA OS like Linux and Windows.
Isaiah James
A good idea.
You still think its just one user?
This.
Josiah Howard
I don't know enough about it to form an opinion. Where should I go to learn more?
Austin Smith
Get a time machine a go back to the 90s
Easton Edwards
9front and 9legacy.
Colton Bennett
>take plan9
>polish it a bit
>do something to achieve accelerated graphics in rio
>port webkit or blink to it
Why somebody doesn't do this? It's going to be better than all the linux shit.
Ayden Jones
Saw it in another thread and got curious.
Wyatt Cooper
do something to achieve accelerated graphics in rio
We could make the graphics API as a file server, but without the driverinos we can't do the serverinos.
>port webkit or blink
Never going to work.
Dylan Bennett
>without the driverinos we can't do the serverinos.
Meme Nvidia into porting to plan9? Does anyone's dad works at Nvidia?
>never going to work
Why?
Sebastian Gonzalez
virtual machine
Christian Robinson
Is there a technical reason for not porting Rio to Linux? I don't mean a clone WM, I mean the full display server.
Ryan Jackson
First, on plan 9, absolutely no one is interested on web but on file server development.
Second, plan9's graphics and libc is too different to how do you are used to it, there are things you can't simply port or change the header files, and the ridiculous size of webkit or blink is something that guarantees that no one will work on it.
Brody Jackson
rio works with file servers, and linux can't unite /dev/ directories. but, to be honest, i think you can do what rio does by opening non-standard FDs on the terminals, like 3 and 4 for video and audio. I once made a small modification to st and actually succeded to create a third file descriptor for pulseaudio, and worked well.
Justin White
>Is there a technical reason for not porting Rio to Linux?
Yes, Linux is a bloated anachronistic piece of shit that should be abandoned like the bad meme it is.
>windows nt is just as bad if not worse but this doesn't make linux good, just marginally less shit
Jayden Price
There is wio which is the closest Linux can get to rio.
Cameron Cook
>but on file server development.
So... a plan 9 "web browser" would be a file server where you would go like
cd /web/org/Any Forums/g/thread-id
acme post
plumb video.webm
I'm trying to wrap my head around the everything is a file concept and no ioctl
Logan Butler
Pro:
- Takes "everything is a file" to the next level in a good way
- Everything in the system is managed with the extremely simple 9p protocol
- Neat ideas like the /net filesystem
- Sandboxing by default via namespaces and overlay mounts
Contra:
- The UI is absolutely ugly
- You have to recompile the whole system to change the font in the terminal
- "Chorded" mouse gestures make it unusable on Laptops with touchpads
- The way graphics is abstracted makes it impossible to support modern GPU hardware
- No drivers for nothin
Andrew Peterson
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Logan Edwards
Plan9port has a rio-like program. It's not as cool as the real thing but it's close
>why
Plan9 is too different. It's not as easy as porting a Linux program to OpenBSD. The effort is like porting a Linux program to Windows: hard mode, no compat layers or virtualization.
Most people run a Linux or OpenBSD VM with vmx if they need a modern browser
Angel Ross
Oliver Johnson
>please stop talking about technology on the technology board
I'd rather OP post daily than you post even once a year.
Christopher Gray
it's the Haskell of OSes