[GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux

[Thomas Clayton]

Liam,

That was an interesting side-trip thru the web for me. First, I linked out to your google page, then to that woman-in-a-corset's page, then National Novel Month, then back to her page finding a nice cartoon about friendship and a picture of cats on a car hood (for one of my sisters - the catSS owner) - and I hadn't even gotten to any GEM related subject matter, yet!

AFrOS runs over ARAnyM and

ARAnyM is a software virtual machine (similar to VirtualBox or Bochs) designed and developed for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and Linux-m68k) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.

Later on, I think it said something about a mini- ?linux?. Any way, Jeff can look that up for himself. (It is NOT acting as an X-WM - which is what I think he's interested in.)

The other two ref.s have been mentioned here, before, and are GOOD.

Thanks again, for the respite - from work.

Tom Clayton




--- On Thu, 11/3/11, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux
> To: "GEM Development" <gem-dev at simpits.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011, 10:52 AM
> On 3 November 2011 03:52, Jeff Wood
> <rtdos at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Awhile back I had read somewhere that OpenGEM or
> FreeGEM was in the process
> > of being ported to Linux as a usable Display/Window
> Manager. The project
> > went so far as to have a page on sourceforge. Whatever
> became of that?
> 
> I'd love to see it, but it's a big job! Didn't know anyone
> had done it.
> 
> The oath of least resistance would be to obtain the sources
> from X-GEM
> on FlexOS, which was a multitasking-aware GEM on top of an
> (I think
> possibly POSIX-compliant) multitasking OS. But I don't
> think that got
> open sourced, and I also believe IBM is still selling it!
> 
> http://www-03.ibm.com/products/retail/products/software/4690/index.html
> 
> (Found from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexOS --
> which I recently
> found someone's done some *serious* work on in the last
> couple of
> years since I last looked at it.)
> 
> The alternative would be to take the bits of the
> multitasking FOSS ST
> GEM, from the Afros project, and port 'em back to X86.
> Still a big
> job, though.
> 
> http://aranym.sourceforge.net/afros.html
> 
> 
> 
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