Re: (no subject)
Frederic Wagner <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.picogui.devel |
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:34:23PM +0000, ciara mulvihill wrote: > hey Ronan and Ciara here, > hi, > We are 3rd year computer science students doing a project. > It involves building an embedded system. > We are going to run an 486 embedded architecture emulator and we are considering > what embedded operating system to run over this. > We're probally going for TinyX or PicoGUI. > Any thoughts, advantages disadvantages? I personnaly tried both on my laptop (486 with 4megs of RAM) and tinyX isn't a valid option. I mean, ok it launches but it is awfully slooow. maybe with 8Megs of ram it's better. picogui may be a bit young, but it runs quickly enough to be usable, and I can even pay myself the luxury to have themes. that being said, there is a counterpart : you'll have to learn an other API, and the number of applications is less than in tinyX. my personnal thought : picogui is fast, doesn't eat a lot of memory, and nice looking. it sure isn't suited for everyday use, but for a computer science project it should be really nice. Wagner Frederic -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Unix - where you can throw the manual on the keyboard and get a command ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en