2013-11-30 08:51:10 -05:00
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Necromancy
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We resurrected Xvesa from the depths of git history, and intend to maintain it with Xfbdev.
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This includes bugfixes, security fixes, and occasional new features if required.
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Why?
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The TinyX servers fill our needs while being a lot smaller than Xorg can be made.
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Why 1.2.0 and not 1.3.0?
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As you know, Xvesa was killed in 1.4.0, so the latest released version would be 1.3.0.
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However, they broke all input in 1.3.0 (keyboard and mouse), so the last working released
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version is 1.2.0.
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There were also some changes later on that we disagree with (mandatory xinput & xkb).
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Design choices
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We aim for the smallest fully featured X server binary. Currently there are the vesa and
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fbdev servers, but others may appear in the future (Xmodesetting?).
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- no xkb; it's bloat when console keymaps suffice
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- no xinput
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- no xinerama
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- no gl
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- TCP listening disabled by default, shadow FB enabled by default
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Licensing
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While the original codebase is MIT, any changes here are GPLv3. Supporting closed devices
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with this code is not a goal.
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2016-10-02 03:22:09 -04:00
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Links
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There's a similar tinyX fork from the Puppy folks:
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https://github.com/idunham/tinyxserver
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