Thread: [Simplygnustep-discuss] Great things are coming....
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From: <ceh...@ma...> - 2003-08-05 10:19:43
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I am now changing Prometheus to do a lot of things differently. First, we are going to a complete, full, linux-2.6.0 build. In order to do this lots of software is checked out of cvs, instead of being simply downloaded. Mainly glibc. The move away from XFree86 has begun (sorta, read on). The display system for Prometheus will be based on DirectFB, which uses the linux kernel video framebuffer. It is hardware accelerated and allows some really cool stuff. The first cool thing it does is allows us to to rid ourselves of XFree86. Because DirectFB is framebuffer based, we can do some really awesome stuff. For example, we can not only boot up graphically, but boot up using OpenGL! that's right, the bootup can actually be OpenGL stuff. Also, configuration of the system is way easier, the install is cleaner too, no crazy /usr/X11 directories. "But wait! You can't just abandon X11! There is a lot of great X11 software I want to run!" you say. No worries, my friend! There is a project called XDirectFB which does rootless X11 windows, just like in Mac Os X, so you can still run you're X11 apps too! This means that for now, we can compile gnustep to use the X11, just as it does normally. But eventually we should create a new backend for gnustep which interacts directly with directfb. That work is starting, and will be the new NuVu project (NuVu was a project I started in november to create a lightweight window server) This puts Prometheus way above "just another linux distro". This is innovation, man! :-) More to come, Chad |