[fedora-arm] RE: Windowing under Fedora_ARM (was Serial console under Fedora_ARM)

Itamar Reis Peixoto itamar at ispbrasil.com.br
Sat Aug 15 12:21:27 UTC 2009


I want to contribue with fedora ARM

Can you give details about what hardware you're using ?

how to buy it ?


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Vijay Raju<vijay at embeddedmachines.com> wrote:
> Hi Kedar,
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I don't think that the system that I am working on
> is really geared up for GNOME. Speed is limited to 266MHz, RAM to 64MB and i
> have 1GB of storage. Also I am using an older kernel,  2.6.23. I guess that
> puts me at a considerable disadvantage. A little bit of research has got me
> thinking about two options:
>
> 1. Build a simple barebones X-sever. Something like this post:
> http://linux.omap.com/pipermail/linux-omap-open-source/2004-November/002175.
> html. And use a client intended for small systems like Matchbox
> (http://matchbox-project.org/). I saw libmatchbox is part of the published
> packages. A package with some compiled examples would be nice :)
>
> 2. Abandon X altogether and move to something like Qt. I saw Qt was also
> part of the list of packages. Maybe I can use that.
>
> For the touchscreen I came across this project http://tslib.berlios.de/. It
> looks it is or was maintained by Russell King.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Vijay Raju
>

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