From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 12 18:46:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02268 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02263 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29547; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 19:46:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd029513; Thu Feb 12 19:46:32 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA11073; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 19:46:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802130246.TAA11073@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Linux GGI To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:46:29 +0000 (GMT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802130211.MAA10745@cain.gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at Feb 13, 98 12:41:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have come across the GGI project, which aims to allow access to graphics > devices easily, and without having SUID binaries around - also allows multiple > monitors and keyboards etc.. > I am thinking of porting it to FreeBSD, because it actually looks descent - > well, their goals are good anyway :) > > They have kernel bits which have to be added which are going to be the hard > stuff, but I am working on the userland stuff at the moment. > > Anyone else interested? > The URL for the GGI Homepage is http://synergy.caltech.edu/~ggi/ FWIW: This is the Linux project "DDX in the Kernel" that I was referring to the other week, and couldn't remember the name of the thing. This project, from what I can tell, comes as close as anything ever has to the original fall 1993 "Grand Unified Console Design" that never got built. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message