Hello!
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:56:59AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Tim,
>
> > The first impediment is the age of the PC hardware available to most
> > people (if they are fortunate enough to have access to a computer at all
...
It is precisely the idea which I want to sell here in Nicaragua, that
"obsolete" hardware can still be powerful enough to do "the task". Of
course it won't do it satisfactorily with grafics animation, sounds,
streaming video in a sidebar etc.
> > In any case, there seems to be very little development of curses (terminal or
...
> I can only second this. That is why I am trying to break even the simple task
> of "form filling" into modules that can be distributed among machines or
> reimplemented under curses, slang, DOS text mode etc.
That's why I still get interested in GNUe's form module. It seems to
advance, and it has the advantage, that it is designed to support any
form-rendering client you can imagine. Especially there should be a
ncurses client. So the "buisness logic" under the hood is always the
same, the forms are always the same, but you can choose the form's
presentation according to you hardwares capabilities.
I suppose there should/could be a forms translator beetween OIO and
GNUe-Forms (both are XML).
Best Regards,
Jorge-Le�n
P.S.: We are figuring out the posibilities to make up a project
"Clubes de Computaci�n" where we try to get "obsolete" Hardware at
low, or no cost, we teach university students how to install and
configure Linux on them (and how to program small biz solutions on
them), and to redistribute (lend) them to the places where the kids go
to play Nintendo in the barrio, so they get the oportunity to get used
to (OSS) computing at the same cost of the game.
Any ideas? What about the provider side of the hardware?
