Re: cairo backend status

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 8/16/06, Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/16/06, Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> wrote:
> >
> > Am 15.08.2006 um 08:01 schrieb Rogelio Serrano:
> >
> > > things i hate about my linux pc:
> > >
> > > 1. it takes more than a second to boot up
> > > 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories
> > > 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday
> >
> > Sounds a lot Linux is in urgent need of support for sleeping.
> >
> > One of the big favorites of my Mac is the implementation of sleeping:
> > never shutdown or boot again, have the computer at night in a quiet,
> > energy efficient state nonetheless. Wakeup is done in a second or two.
> >
>
> Well linuxbios can fix that. But not by sleeping. Just by booting up
> really fast. early apple 2's boot up in 7 seconds. I figured that
> multi gigahertz processors should bootup in less than a second. My

yada yada yada...

> I just have to do something about it!
>
> an init replacement was the first step. Then next is a cairo driven
> framebuffer based editor that will solve all my problems.

Sorry that was offtopic.

Ok back to cairo. It looks like nobody is working on it. Im going to
build cairo back in a uclibc based environment and hack it up so it
will work on the framebuffer. Im going to chop up cairo-back into tiny
little pieces and write test programs for each tiny bit of
functionality and put it back together again. My main focus is the
framebuffer but i would like to use gnustep for testing.

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things i hate about my linux pc:

1. it takes more than a second to boot up
2. keeps asking about filenames and directories
3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday
4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made
5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself