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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