On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 17:02 +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 15:10 +0000, Joel Merrick wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 15:59 +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > > Do you know how much RAM would be minum needed to make xfce4/uclibc be
> > > a
> > > pleasant experience?
> > 
> > That's cool, but has anyone tried this using DirectFB?
> > 
> > I want to use a very simple WM (such as evilwm) as the frontend to a
> > network appliance that I'm creating.. would be great to have a GUI
> > running on there using as little RAM and CPU as possible.
> > 
> > Are there any limitations with this?
> 
> You will need to be by the screen physically. :)

That's the point :) I already have a web configuration front end, but
the IP address configuration needs to be done from the screen/keyboard
combo (there's no LCD panel or anything)

I just basically wanted to provide the same interface in a cut down
browser (not links with svgalib either, looks ugly and there's too much
stuff that I don't need)

I know that I could do the whole ncurses config based thing and skip the
idea of having a framebuffer, but it'd be nice to present the same
interface at all levels and the hardware is already in the box, so it'd
be daft not to at least make *some* use of it.


> 
> Considered a web interface? there is a project named haserl which is
> embedding shell code in html, just like php.
> 
> http://haserl.sourceforge.net

Cool will look at that anyway 


> 
> ebuild is found here:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76213
> 
> --
> Natanael Copa
> 
> 
-- 
Joel Merrick


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