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* Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> interesting, yes, but what's the point? (not saying it's useless, just |
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> that I missed something). What would I use it for? |
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For a better understanding I'd suggest a bit research on Plan9 ;-P |
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In Plan9 everything runs through filesystems (even more than |
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on *nix). Instead of large applications and dozens of frameworks |
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we have fileservers for many things, even the windowing system |
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is accessed via the filessystem. So filesystem trees (accessed |
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via the 9P protocol) are the universal IPC. This makes the whole |
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thing completely network transparent and platform agnostic. |
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The MixerFS is one of the puzzle pieces. It provides an easy to |
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use interface for applications which want to control mixers. So |
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(once the apps have been ported ;-P) there's no more dependency |
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to any platform specific stuff and the whole thing is immediately |
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network transparent. |
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One of the next steps is an audio io filesystem, which replaces |
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things like esd or jack. |
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I'm also currently moving out several things from mozilla to |
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their own fileservers. |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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