On Tuesday 03 April 2001 23:33, Bob Ham wrote: > > Also, having a graphics driver is not the same as replacing X. You could > run an X server that uses a Hurd graphics translator. This is kind of > thing KGI/fb with the fb X server does. However, there is also the > Berlin project whose aim *is* to replace X. Berlin seems to me to be a > better choice for a GUI for GNU than X. I say this as everybody knows X > is a *big* beast with lots of issues, both technical and otherwise (X > license stuff.) Combined with the suitablity of the Hurd for a KGI style > graphics system and Berlin's use of GGI (and hence KGI), this seems to > me to be a very powerful arguement. >
I sounded out the Berlin dev list about HURD compatibility a few weeks ago and got this: ----begin quote > As far as I can see, HURD (gnumach) lacks some fundamental things > berlin needs (in particular pthreads - it only has cthreads IIRC). well, if Prague's Thread classes could be implemented with cthreads that would already do it. > You would probably have to implement a lot of other things to get > Berlin running on HURD (of course, feel free to do that, I'm sure the > HURD folks will be grateful :). right. An ORB and a Console API would be needed, just to begin with. Then Prague needs to be ported. But that's basically all :) All the system dependencies of berlin are encapsulated within these three modules. ----end quote -------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Alexander - The man with no surname and a silly hat. (Now avaliable in China!) http://www.ozemail.com.au/~glenalec I use LINUX: http://www.linux.org and KDE : http://www.kde.org -------------------------------------------------------- If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewr... Hey! that's the internet!
