Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Sep 2003 20:37 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews Today we feature a very interesting interview with Havoc Pennington. Havoc works for Red Hat, he is heading the desktop team, while he is well known also for his major contributions to GNOME, his GTK+ programming book, plus the freedesktop.org initiative which aims to standardize the X11 desktop environments. In the following interview we discuss about the changes inside Red Hat, Xouvert, freedesktop.org and Gnome's future, and how Linux, in general, is doing in the desktop market.
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Re: DirectFB is the better alternative to X11
by John BLink on Mon 15th Sep 2003 07:32 UTC

I have Redhat 9, and framebuffer set to vga=791.

I have the above, can I load GNOME in the framebuffer out of the box or do I have to re-compile GNOME to use the framebuffer.

Also what would the command be from the console to launch GNOME in the framebuffer instead of X?