Lightweight Install?
Hannes Hirzel
hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch
Tue Jul 22 22:32:45 UTC 2003
Andreas Raab wrote:
>>What is /dev/fb ?
>
>
> The framebuffer device. Allowing you to run Squeak on Linux in the absence
> of X11 or another window system. IIIRC, then the SDL library can be used in
> either "windowed" (X11) or "standalone" (framebuffer) mode.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
Thank you for the instant reply. This is extremly cool as it means that
no X11 window system is necessary. Just a very lightweight Linux system
may be used.
Does anybody have suggestions which Linux distributions could be used
for this? It would be good that it has hardware detection like KNOPPIX.
-- Hannes
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