Hi pancake, 2009/5/19 pancake <panc...@youterm.com>: > I have been looking a bit for an alternative for X11, and I found nano-X > quite interesting, > but it is currently an abandoned project. 8000 LOCs, there's an abstraction > library to wrap > libX11 and there's support for some many IO devices (tty, gpm, ..) It runs > directly writing > on fb0, but it shouldnt be hard to make it run as Xnest (for testing > purposes) or draw a > xorg-driver layer to directly run with native graphics drivers. > > The source looks quite clean and I think we can use it as base for the > minimal X replacement. > > ARG, what do you think about this? :)
I'm looking at it and must confess it could be some starting point. > There's little movement in the mailing list nowadays, but the last release > is from 1999. So I > can think that the project is dead. > > Here's the last release of nanox (0.4) > http://www.tucows.com/download.html?software_id=9833&t=2 > > Actually the project has grown and it was renamed to "microwindows" which > has become a much bigger project: ( iwas unable to compile it because of the > outdated dependency against freetype (v1) ) > > ftp://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwindows/microwindows-full-0.91.tar.gz > (10MB) > > this tarball contains nanox (but depends on freetype and such) and now is > 16KLOC > > Official website: > http://www.microwindows.org/ Thanks and kind regards, Anselm
