On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 08:04, Richard Drummond wrote: > Hi Karl > > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 02:12, Karl Bowden wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 23:19, Michael Latiolais wrote: > > > Have you considered looking at the integration in other, similar > > > projects? Atheos(http://www.atheos.cx/) has an integrated GUI, and may > > > provide a good model. Just a thought. > > > > Wow. They have done a really good job of intergration in the os. I > > remember looking at the project a long time ago, but at that time, the > > kernel had only just started booting. > > If you think that's cool, have you seen Cosmoe? (http://www.cosmoe.com/) > They've begun a port to DirectFB. > > > DirectFB + a GUI would easily fit in as a kernel > > module to make for a well intergrated os, that would boot of a cd, > > flash-rom card, builtin rom, etc.. > > Why would you need this stuff as a kernel module, though?
Sorry, I did not mean to give people the impression that I would like this as a kernel module. I was just using it as an illustration, in that DirectFB has a very good advantage of a TINY footprint, and that it should not be underestimated. I guess I should have just said that in the first place, eh? Karl Bowden btw.. does the hurd kernel have framebuffer support? -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
