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FQA Appendix Z - Getting Started With 9front
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Introduction
This is a list of possible things to add, remove, change in 9front. After there’s been some consensus that something here is going to be implemented, an issue may be created on the bug tracker.
Crazy Ideas
• make a TODO list which isn’t full of bullshit and random suggestions
Basically Sound
• dan cross’ walk and sor
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.plan9.general/8755
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.plan9.general/8755
• video decoder/player (ffmpeg port?) (see FQA Appendix B - Bounties)
• graphviz
• equis:
→ use /dev/kbd (for video game emulators, amongst other things)
→ snarf/paste support (might be good as client program—how would this work?)
• openvpn
• unrar 3
• un7zip
• VacFS
• client auth
• groups (?)
• write access
• N64, PSX, SMS, TG-16 emulators
• music tracker program (sequencer)
• pico(1) (the plan 9 image manipulation language)
• OPUS audio support
http://tools.ietf.org.gmi/rfc6716
http://tools.ietf.org.gmi/rfc6716
• djvu support
• chm support
http://www.nongnu.org/chmspec/latest/index.gmi
http://www.nongnu.org/chmspec/latest/index.gmi
• GUI programs (mothra, abaco, sam, etc.) should have shift+up/down arrow behavior like rio
• add magnet/dht and peer discovery support to ip/torrent
• implement some way to determine used and free space on FAT volumes
Somebody Else’s Problem
• inferno:
→ make snarf work by default
→ fix build on amd64
For the Masochists
• write NTFS driver
• exfat filesystem
For the Users
• read fqa
• read man pages
• read plan 9 papers
• learn c
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