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Xynth. A New Embedded Windowing System

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-12-13 08:43. GTK
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New embedded and portable windowing system, client/server interface between display hardware (mouse, keyboard, video displays) and the desktop environment that works on many hardware, including embedded devices (handhelds, set-top boxes, etc.) has been released by Xynth.
They say "The name Xynth comes from the coordinate system, which is the heart of the Xynth Windowing System design. Xynth is a LGPL licensed free software project. It aims to provide a lightweight GUI supported windowing system for Linux-based and/or real-time embedded systems." The project's range is embedded systems to desktops. It might be a good choice for embedded systems.

I agree that there is a

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-12-15 09:54.

I agree that there is a point for this project. Running X on a pda or a smartphone is stupid. X does not have the leanest design and sometimes you do need lean.

However, Linus never reinvented Minix. In fact Linus was trying to create a unix like OS using some of the principles presented in Minix. After the initial release of linux Linus was harshly criticized by the creator of Minix for not following the guidlines and creating a very poorly designed OS. So this might not be the best example.

Oh and if you really have to compare Xynth to anything this would be Qutopia and NOT xorg/xfree86

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