What GUI system on nanoben?

ZhangJieJing kzjeef at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 09:48:39 EDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Xiangfu Liu<xiangfu at qi-hardware.com> wrote:
> Ron K. Jeffries wrote:
>> Here's a radical idea:
>>
>> consider Ben to be a toe in the water,
>> a proof of concept of the open
>> hardware development process.
>>
>> Any GUI a developer chooses to put
>> on 32MB RAM Ben is probably a throw away.
>>
>> When we have more RAM at some future
>> date, my money is on X.11 because it instantly
>> enables so many apps.
>>
>>
>> As to a Window manager, something lightweight.
>>
>> Many electrons will be consumed with GUI discussions.
>> It's so contentious that it may deserve its own mail list.
>>
>> The vital thing is to focus on shipping a reliable stable
>> Ben that runs the CLI. Then let a thousand flowers bloom.
>
> agree. +1.

Agree too,

Also, at least we need make the our screen can see the CLI , and type
command via Ben's keyboard. So we can operate Ben without a computer,
so Ben seems to be a small computer, not just a PDA or other device.



>
>> Remember,  few weeds are also inevitable.
>> ---
>> Ron K. Jeffries
>> http://identi.ca/ronkjeffries
>
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