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best music player for plan 9?

>>61204432

     PLAY(1)                                                   PLAY(1)

     NAME
          play - simple audio player

     SYNOPSIS
          play [ -o file ] [ file | url ... ]

     DESCRIPTION
          Play is a simple audio player that understands a number of
          audio and playlist formats.

          If no file or url arguments are given, standard input is
          used.  The file type is determined using the file(1) command
          and a matching audio(1) decoder is applied.

          By default, raw audio data is written to /dev/audio unless
          changed with the -o option.

     SOURCE
          /rc/bin/play

     SEE ALSO
          audio(1), hget(1)

     HISTORY
          Play first appeared in 9front (January, 2012).

Also see http://man.aiju.de/7/playlistfs

>download Plan 9 on QEMU
>can't save a file on acme
>can't compile a C program from acme

Nay, I'll keep my Gentoo.

5 people use fucking plan9, who gives one shit about that operating system.

I'm one of the few 9front users here. Have a 9front partition on my x1 carbon and boot into it a few times a week for the comfiness.

What makes it better than linux?

>>61205513

Per process namespaces, EVERYTHING is a file (not almost everything, but literally everything. All of it is accessible through a single network transparent protocol called 9P.
It's the next step in the unix philosophy. It's more UNIX than Linux, or even Unix itself is.

>>61205513
http://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.2

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>>61205513
Do you even need to ask? Hint: it's the mascot.

Are there any modern-day equivalents to bell labs? It seems like a lot of interesting technology came out of there.

>>61205565
I don't like that everything is a file...I'd be worried if I deleted a file and then everything went to shit.

>>61205647
Like a domino effect.

>>61205565
>>61205513
To break that down, two minor things created out of a misunderstanding for the tasks of an OS that make the same kind of sperg fall for it that would fall for the UNIX philosophy.
>>61205618
I want that ugly thing purged, Morty.

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>>61205580
>Plan 9 had no hope of keeping up with web browsers.

Sounds like a pretty good reason to not deal with it.

>>61205697
Or Sounds like a pretty good reason to start to deal with it.

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>>61203947
What this calls for, is a bottle of failure.

>>61205871

That's the legacy plan 9 which hasn't been maintained for many years. You should be installing 9front which receives regular updates.

www.9front.org

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>>61205692
>ugly
why do you hate cute bunnies?

>>61205245
> can't compile a C program from acme

What's your problem?

>>61205918
>why do you hate cute bunnies?
I don't.
I just don't like ugly creatures sitting at the bottom of uncanny valley.
The team should have hired a professional instead of Pikes "artist" wife, with possible influence from her boyfriend.

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>>61205955
b-b-but muh simplicity!

>>61205955
I don't think you know what uncanny valley is.

>>61205895
Ya and vanilla plan9 doesn't ship with a copy of the Communist Manifesto as well

>>61205955
>I don't
so... you like bunnies?

>>61205970
Those 3d shaded teeth attempt to make it too realistic to be cute.
Might as well shop an anus right into the center of the face.

But you are right, it's ugly for other details as well.

>>61205996
I also dislike go-pher if that was your next question.

>>61205966
Of course Uriel was right, after all he debugged himself in the end.

>>61205995

It also lacks (feminize)

>>61205647
what are write permissions?

>>61205895
That one doesn't have an installer.

>>61206124
>>61205647

It actually uses a rootless permission system. The whole system is extremely different from Linux or BSD. Read the 9front FQA

>>61206159

yes it does
http://fqa.9front.org/fqa4.html#4.3.5

What the actual fuck

>>61205995

why you would want that trash on plan9 tho

>>61207409
it what they do. if there is a nice open source project, they make sure it wont be successfull. either by introducing a CoC and trying to destroy the community or they try to become the main "fork" by doing some development, but then they either let it rot or change the nature of it until people are to disgusted to even think about using that code.

>>61207495
9front Coc, if there is any, is not harmful

>>61205949
>write code
>add "8c $%" in the top bar
>middle click it
>get unclickable rc error in the log

>>61209023
screenshot or message of the error?
it works for me

why

>>61205799
Porting is already a great amount of effort, and even more to keep it up to date. Plan9 is already too late.

whats 9 front?
why did plan 9 die?

>>61210193
OP spent time to educate you, read it please

> whats 9 front?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZOh-lxYadc
9front is a fork of Plan 9

> why did plan 9 die?
Plan 9 died because it was too good for this world

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>>61210193
9Front is a UNIX-like operating system for hipsters. It uses a shitty window system called Rio that is heavily dependent on retarded mouse click gestures and everything must be run from a terminal window, because fuck shortcuts and using a mouse for anything other than resizing windows. Plan9 died because it was a piece of shit, and 9Front is only slightly less shit.

Imagine you have two pieces of dog poop in front of you, and you have to eat one. The biggest, wettest one is Plan9. The smaller, dried out one is 9Front. Either way, you're still ingesting dog shit.

Plan9 is amazing.
Keeping everything simple, consistent and designing everything really well pays off in the end.
I wish I could use it as my daily driver.

>>61210905
>It uses a shitty window system called Rio
You can use Rio, or write something yourself.
Actually carmack planned to write an alternative to rio, but didn't have enough time to do so in the end.

>>61210905
It 9front and Plan 9, not Plan9 you mouthbreather

>>61213513
It's

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>>61205995
It once came with Mein Kampf.
Sadly they removed that (T_T)