Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop

Igor Pokrovsky ip at doom.homeunix.org
Mon Aug 22 17:35:09 GMT 2005


On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:39:20AM -0700, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
> > 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?

Heh, what are you going to accelerate in text mode? 8-)

-ip

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