But if you write a frame buffer version for Linux, then you wouldn't need
anything besides a kernel with frame buffer support compiled in. Could
make for a VERY small kernel, if you didn't include anything but network
support and support for a few network cards.
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At 02:04 PM Wednesday 2/21/2001 +0100, you allegedly said:
>On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:56:11AM -0500, Andrew Bourdon wrote:
> > I'm thinking of screwing arround with VNC and a really stripped down
>vanilla
> > Linux kenel 2 create a very small visual terminal OS which could be used on
> > old crappy machines with a little RAM and a weak CPU. How dificult would it
> > be to create kernel calls which would be used by VNC? More specifically,
> > what type of calls would be required and is it possible to weld some VNC
> > components into the kernel itself?
>
>I think you don't need this. Make a small boot-disk and start
>svncviewer. svncviewer is in the debian distribution:
>
>$ apt-cache show svncviewer
>Package: svncviewer
>Priority: optional
>Section: x11
>Installed-Size: 116
>Maintainer: Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Architecture: i386
>Version: 1:0.1-2
>Provides: vncviewer
>Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libvncauth0, svgalibg1
>Suggests: vncserver
>Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/svncviewer_0.1-2.deb
>Size: 19966
>MD5sum: 5a14d1fc642d0e4d4d710449adfd6c79
>Description: Virtual network computing client software for SVGA.
> VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote
> display system which allows you to view a computing `Desktop' environment
> not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the
> Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
> .
> It is implemented in a client/server model. This package provides a client
> for SVGA, with this you can connect to a vncserver somewhere in the network
> and display its content on a graphic capable console. There are vncserver
> available for X and for Win95/NT, although the Win95/NT server may not work
> with svgalib viewer due to missing palette handling.
>
>
>Grisu
>--
>Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org
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> Hammer, der nur Ndgel mit exakt 5 cm Ldnge in die Wand schldgt."
>--A.Schwenke
>
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