On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 01:12:50PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 1/20/26 15:02, [email protected] wrote: > > > On this, we agree. I tried to tackle the DRM problem (without having > > any knowledge at first) and after several tries and false starts only > > concluded: > > By "DRM" you mean direct rendering manager or digital restriction management > ? >
Direct Rendering Manager (this is indeed the problem with the acronyms: the 3 or 4 letters can now mean everything and the reverse so except in an already focused thread with unambiguous local meaning, they should be spelled in full length before resorting to the acronym). > > 1) That X11 is dead; > > https://github.com/X11Libre > > NetBSD is one of our official CI targets, btw. > (we could use some more hands on deck, especially for testing, > packaging, etc) > I have crossed your messages when working initially on X11 modules in the Xorg distribution and it is sure for me that NetBSD and others have to worry about the X11 stuff because I guess Oracle will eventually pull the plug (the most active still present developers for userland X11 are, if I'm not mistaken, Oracle's employees). >[...] > > I'm now trying to master a kernel so that I will not depend indirectly > > on the way the massive organisations are pushing the trend. > > Oh, can you tell us some more ? > I'm the developer of kerTeX, a distribution of TeX and al. What people generally don't know is that METAFONT is a rasterizer. This does mean that for 2D stuff, one has with TeX and al. almost already everything to go from graphical primitives, including glyphes, to a rasterized image. My plan is to go the fullway with what I have already, extending DVI to add some things that will make the format more self sufficient and borrowing the rasterization routines from METAFONT to go from static pages described in DVI to raster images. The plan is also to make the DVI format GUI usable for an interface description. I want the thing to be a self contained, totally independent solution even not requiring a GPU (the only thing required for graphical display is the minimal circuitry unfortunately bound nowadays on the GPU board: a timer and a device able to pass in synchronization the rasterized image to the display). For my basic uses, I made without any acceleration for years, and I still don't need it since I still program trying to use the minimum of resources. And---even if not directly related to the 2D output---the engine in kerTeX: Prote (compatible with TeX; compatible with the e-TeX extensions; and providing supplementary primitives required by recent LaTeX) is already extended to be able, eventually, to masquerade as *roff, giving with kerTeX a system' and user's documentation solution. One software to layout them all. Best, -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
