Remeber someone was talking about a GGI web brower. Well someone was
working on a graphics console web browers. Here is the email.
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The choice of a GNU generation
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Date: 29 Nov 1999 18:28:54 +0100
From: Tomas Berndtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Bill Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Frame Buffer mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [linux-fbdev] zen..
James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Bill Thompson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a G400 on a K7 system using TurboLinux 4.0.5 and matroxfb
> > patched to a 2.2.12 kernel (no modules). I've been trying to get
> > zen (a possible lynx replacement for the framebuffer) to work but
> > it locks up my system tight. Anybody have any luck running zen
> > with framebuffer option? It's in early development and its author
> > says it works for him.
> >
> > http://www.nocrew.org/software/zen/
>
> I will give a try tonight. Its just fb based. It might be nice to port it
> to libGGI so it can work in both X windows and fbcon without code
> modification.
Hi, I'm the developer of Zen, nice to see it being noticed. :)
I haven't announced it anywhere (else than on its webpage), because
it's still under very heavy development. It works for me on a
sparcstation in 8-bit mode, and on a PPC in 16-bit truecolour. Higher
truecolour isn't supported yet by our FB library, oFBis, but it
hopefully will be soon.
Implementing a GGI-interface to it shouldn't be a problem, as I've
made a simple API to the interfaces, and each interface is in its own
shared lib, loaded with dlopen. I choose oFBis, cause I know it a lot
better than GGI, and it was really only the framebuffer browser I was
aiming at to start with.
To try it right now, you will probably need to get the latest oFBis
from our CVS too. Or from the nightly snapshot, you can get both. It's
at ftp://ftp.nocrew.org/pub/nocrew/linux/cvs/.
Greetings,
Tomas
