Re: Can't X be elemenated?

[Erik Hensema]

kartikey bhatt (kartik_me@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I read your reply to a person worried about the future of linux. It was a
> satisfactory reply; I hope to get a satisfactory reply for this one also.
> 
> Can't X be elemenated?
> 
> I mean to say kernel level support for graphics device drivers and special
> routines for accessing it directly; rest will be done by user space widget
> libraries (or say a kernel space light widget library which can be 
> customized
> by user space libraries).

Please take a look at directfb, work is underway to port Qt to it, so
potentionally you could run KDE on the framebuffer console.

It's however quite offtopic here.

-- 
Erik Hensema <erik@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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