Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 18:06:58 +0200 (SAT) From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WINE (was: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks?) Message-ID: <199803091606.SAA08725@cdsec.com>
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This all seems a bit off topic but... > > What strategy does photon offer for preserving the investment that > > various enterprises have made in their existing X11 applications? Or are > > you going to pull a Java on me and tell me that the apps have to be > > rewritten? > > Isn't photon the proprietary GUI from those people who build realtime > POSIX certified kernels? If so, I don't think it's X11 source compatible, > and I believe you cannot use it as an X server. Photon is a proprietary windowing system that is used by QNX. If I remember correctly then there are libraries which will allow Photon apps to be compiled and run under X or messy windows, but not vice-versa. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cdsec.com Citadel Data Security Phone: +27(21)23-6065/6/7 Internet/Intranet Network Specialists Mobile: +27(83)-253-9864 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data Security Products WWW: http://www.cdsec.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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