The GGI project is glad to announce
LibGGI Final Beta
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This is our last beta before the final release of LibGGI at the end of this
year.
I. What is LibGGI ?
LibGGI is a graphics metalibrary that provides a fast and lightweight
access path to a broad variety of graphics architectures like SVGAlib,
X, fbdev, glide, kgicon and even libaa or DirectX.
Note, that is does not bring along its own graphics drivers but it will work
on top of about any graphics subsystem you already have running on your
machine.
LibGGI is intended to rid the graphics programmer of the choice whether his
program should run under X, under SVGAlib or under fbdev. You write your
program once and for all and if it is done well, it will run on all of
them, including LCD-Displays or whatever weird "target" you can attach
to LibGGI or even whatever targets will be added to LibGGI later.
Your program only links to LibGGI, so no more dependency nightmares.
II. Status of LibGGI and the GGI project.
Some of you might have thought the GGI project to be dead ...
Well we are not. We had just not realized how many people get scared away
by the "beta" Tag on our release. We have been imitating Tux, sitting
there happily and content and seeing that everything works fine and we get
only very few bug reports.
LibGGI worked fine all the time, and this time we would like to broaden our
testing base a lot by:
a) telling you that it really is pretty stable.
No need to worry about your machine - it is just a usermode library, and
the programs will run without special priviledges, if the underlying
graphics subsystem permits.
b) releasing binary packages.
Please all that are interested: Get it, install it, test it and report any
bugs you find !
We want to release the final version still this year, so be quick and help
us to make it as good as it can be.
III. I want it ! Where is it ?
Please visit www.ggi-project.org. The entry page will have prominent
pointers to the download locations. There will be .tgz snapshots available
as well as rpms.
Have fun with it,
The GGI Project Team
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Marcus Sundberg | http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mackan
Royal Institute of Technology | Phone: +46 707 452062
Stockholm, Sweden | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
