Date:   Tue, 28 Dec 1999 13:11:27 +1000 (EST)
From:   Ben Williamson <benw@pobox.com>
To:     dinx-announce@lists.sourceforge.net,
Subject: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.2


DinX 0.2.2 is now available for download.  This release brings
significant performance improvements and bugfixes.  The distribution also
contains a patch to the FreeType library (www.freetype.org) that allows
its test programs to run under DinX.

- Ben.

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Ben Williamson       benw@pobox.com     http://www.pobox.com/~benw/


name:      DinX is not X

version:   0.2.2

homepage:  http://dinx.sourceforge.net/

download:  http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?form_grp=637

author:    Ben Williamson <benw@pobox.com>

category:  console/graphics

brief:     Windowing system, uses Linux framebuffer.

license:   MPL with GPL option

description:

DinX is an experimental windowing system that performs clipping and
drawing inside Linux kernel modules.  This eliminates much context
switching between clients and the server, and makes the code small, simple
and fast.  It is aimed at small systems like Linux handhelds.

changes:

dinx-0.2.2:	Tue Dec 28 1999		benw@pobox.com
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- Speedup: added per-window preference to redraw rather than move_rect.
- Protected against all known race conditions.
- Fixed potential stack overflows - clipping is no longer recursive.
- Added l32_copy_4bpp (untested).
- Bugfix to signal handling for console switches.
- Added rudimentary keyboard event support.
- Patch to FreeType library: test programs run under DinX.

dinx-0.2.1:	Fri Dec 24 1999		benw@pobox.com
-----------
- Removed vgalib dependency, replaced with our own mouse driver.
- Added 32bpp blitter, contributed by Matthew Backes <lucca@acm.org>.
- Check more return values for errors.
- Fixed a bug that was causing dinx_select_fb to report bogus errors.





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