I glance at this mailing list from time to time to see if there have been any
breakthroughs. I noticed that a lot of people are interested in X for ELKS. I
wonder if there are in fact two separate questions here: first can an X server
be run on ELKS and second can X clients run on ELKS.
If what you want to do is to run a cheap ELKS based machine as a graphical
terminal for a more capable one it might be possible to use VNC instead.
VNC is a combination of an Xserver and a viewer where the server runs on the
same machine as the client program (this is the big fast machine), the viewer is
a thin client that runs on some other simple hardware. The VNC binary for NT is
only 174Kbytes. I don't suppose that it would be directly portable to ELKS but
the protocol is simple so it might be that someone (not me) could write a
version.
VNC is available under GPL from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, UK.
Take a look at this URL: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/platforms.html
Versions have already been written for DOS so ELKS should be possible.
Of course if the real question was: can X clients run on ELKS then this doesn't
really help, sorry.
Kevin Whitefoot.
