Re: [dwm] nanox

Hi pancake,

2009/5/19 pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com>:
> I have been looking a bit for an alternative for X11, and I found nano-X
> quite interesting,
> but it is currently an abandoned project. 8000 LOCs, there's an abstraction
> library to wrap
> libX11 and there's support for some many IO devices (tty, gpm, ..) It runs
> directly writing
> on fb0, but it shouldnt be hard to make it run as Xnest (for testing
> purposes) or draw a
> xorg-driver layer to directly run with native graphics drivers.
>
> The source looks quite clean and I think we can use it as base for the
> minimal X replacement.
>
> ARG, what do you think about this? :)

I'm looking at it and must confess it could be some starting point.

> There's little movement in the mailing list nowadays, but the last release
> is from 1999. So I
> can think that the project is dead.
>
> Here's the last release of nanox (0.4)
>  http://www.tucows.com/download.html?software_id=9833&t=2
>
> Actually the project has grown and it was renamed to "microwindows" which
> has become a much bigger project: ( iwas unable to compile it because of the
> outdated dependency against freetype (v1) )
>
>  ftp://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwindows/microwindows-full-0.91.tar.gz
> (10MB)
>
> this tarball contains nanox (but depends on freetype and such) and now is
> 16KLOC
>
> Official website:
>  http://www.microwindows.org/

Thanks and kind regards,
Anselm
Received on Wed May 20 2009 - 08:47:46 UTC