No, it's not a *Linux* term, it's a hardware term, just the same way
OpenWindows uses a FBdevice for drawing, but uses X+FB. That would be on
solaris and Earlier AIX machines.

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 03:34, F J Franklin wrote:
> > What does OSX use for rendering then? Direct FB or something?
> 
> That's a very Linux term, isn't it? I dare say Quartz Graphics uses the
> frame buffer, but I can't say for sure.
> 
> AbiWord for XDarwin is a traditional UNIX/GTK build, GTK is a traditional
> X11 build, X11 for MacOSX is XDarwin which uses Quartz Graphics when
> running in parallel with MacOSX (works some other way on raw Darwin, I
> think)...
> 
> Frank
> 
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