Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 01:39:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@yahoo.com> To: Mike Adewole <mike@voicenette.com>, hselasky@c2i.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop Message-ID: <20050821083920.4674.qmail@web52713.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP03339DBC6BEC658F85DA27C0B70@cez.ice>
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> It will be running on a virtual console in text or > graphics mode like > TurboVision used to, but we are focusing on text > mode for now. As I just > wrote to someone else, the main idea is to enable > BSD programs to have a > nice console (textual and graphical) interface with > and without any windows > system. So I could have a standalone program that Thst would be great to have and extend to a full-fledged GUI interface as X is overkill for lots of people. BTW -does it use drivers for graphics accelerator cards? thanks -kamal > looks like an X program > for example but runs on a virtual console without X. > Or I could have the > program run in a desktop environment with other > programs without changing a > single line of code or recompiling the program. > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ------------------------------------------------------------ Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ kamalp@acm.org In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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