nanogui: NanoX version 0.3 released
Subject:
RE: NanoX version 0.3 released
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 1999 15:41:39 -0000
Message-Id: <01BE9C5B.55693DB0.greg@censoft.com>
Speaking of w??????? CE, that's what my nano-Win will compete with!
On Wednesday, May 12, 1999 1:07 AM, Alexander Peuchert ####@####.#### wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 1999, Alex Holden wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Alexander Peuchert wrote:
> > > Same for me, if my Geofox will ever be built :-(.
> >
> > Yes, I know, mine still hasn't arrived either. They have promised that it
> > is about to be built, and mine will be one of the first of the next batch
> > to be despatched, but I've yet to see it...
>
> They said, mine would be built this week. But I'm a little bit sceptic,
> ... also with the shipment to germany.
>
> >
> > > I think, additionally the glib and a windowing system like nano-X is
> > > needed. And space for the apps and execution space and space for the
> > > kernel and ...
> >
> > Yes, but:
> >
> > [root@hyperspace stuff]# ls -l
> > total 1205
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153056 May 11 15:25 libgdk.a
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106248 May 11 15:23 libglib.a
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 965768 May 11 15:25 libgtk.a
> > [root@hyperspace stuff]#
> >
> > libglib is only 100KB or so, our gdk can probably be kept down to 100KB or
> > so, and there may well be some stuff we can strip out of gtk+. Plus, if
> > they are physically stored on CF, then only the code which is being used
> > will get mapped into RAM... I think the 8MB of the Psion 5 might well be
> > too little to run any largish GTK+ apps, but the 16MB Geofox ought to be
> > able to cope (I hope).
>
> But I also want a Linux PDA suite to run on both without any CF. Otherwise
> the w?????s CE people will laught at us.
>
> >
> > > I can't tell you, if that would give a usable system. I want to use 'my'
> > > geofox on a daily bases, if possible, not as a technology study.
> >
> > Well, I'd like to use mine for both.
> >
> > --------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. --------------
> > : Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham :
> > -------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ --------------------
> >
>
> - alex
>
> Alexander Peuchert
> ####@####.####
> http://www.peuchert.de ( not very interesting yet ;-) )
>
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