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Forgive my naïvety, but couldn’t X and CDE be ported over?
by DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
Forgive my naïvety, but couldn’t X and CDE be ported over?
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoI thought there was an X server for Plan 9 (edit: yes; https://plan9.io/wiki/plan9/x11_installation/index.html https://plan9.io/wiki/plan9/x11_installation/index.html ), but it kinda defeats the point unless you use something like https://github.com/gerstner-hub/xwmfs https://github.com/gerstner-hub/xwmfs on it. CDE... something like CDE probably, but actual CDE would be painful and really defeat the point unless you ported its IPC to a Plan 9 native version.
- nrr 2y agoNot trivially. There's a lot in how Plan 9 is put together that makes this a monumental effort. (That said, there may have been an X server brought in at some point, but don't quote me on that. That's the least of anyone's problems in undertaking a CDE port though.)
- ori_b 2y agoYou could, but if you want Unix, you already know where to find it.