Re: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Fri, 24 Dec 1999 23:58:50 +0300 (MSK)


In <19991223204814.B218@bug.ucw.cz> Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz) wrote:
> Hi!

>> category: console/graphics
>>
>> brief: Windowing system, uses Linux framebuffer.
>>
>> license: MPL with GPL option

> That way you are not allowed to link is statically into kernel...

Hmm. Why not ? Since GPL option is there you can link it even without usage
of "GPL hole".

>> DinX is an experimental windowing system that performs clipping and
>> drawing inside Linux kernel modules. This eliminates much context
>> switching between clients and the server, and makes the code small, simple
>> and fast. It is aimed at small systems like Linux handhelds.

> ...which is exactly what you want to do on small systems.

On small system it'll be integral part of system and you can call it "system
library" :-)

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