From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 6 00:09:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA14734 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14695 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:09:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA27232; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:39:10 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199808060709.QAA27232@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Peter Jeremy cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #211 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:11:44 +1000." <98Aug6.161132est.40377@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:39:09 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You might like to check out http://www.ggi-project.org/ Whilst this is > Linux-oriented, some of the ideas may be useful (I don't know what > copyright the code is using, so I'm not sure if the code is directly > usable). One of the claims made in a Dr Dobbs article (which I don't > remember the date of) is that XFree86 does (or will) include support > for this interface. Well, the license is all GPL :( And yes, you can make XFree86 talk to GGI, although I have no idea as to its performance. GGI has some nice ideas.. Mainly because they're actually doing something with regard to the problem of lack of a decent graphics framework for unix :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message