PIXIL development - now?

pierric starocean.wx at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 08:51:35 CEST 2007


Amadeus:
I've blend the penguin with the Box. Here is the result. Is it all right?


2007/9/23, pierric <starocean.wx at gmail.com>:
> Amadeus:
> what do you mean exactly "pixilsplash.gif should be a blend between
> the PIXIL cube and the DSLINUX penguin" ?
> when the pixil start, the pixil desktop is too compact to put the
> penguin on it. the icons are right over the "PIXIL" and the cube of
> the background.
> will left-up corner or right-up corner be ok?
>
> 2007/9/23, Amadeus <amadeus at iksw-muees.de>:
> > Hello Nanomad,
> >
> > On Samstag, 22. September 2007, Nanomad wrote:
> > > Ok, got it running here too
> > > Seems a bit sluggish, but it is working almost fine.
> > > Maybe we could improve pixil in this way:
> > > Converting fork() to vfork() is handy for testing purposes under
> > > uClinux, but I think we should go on and convert those fork() into
> > > pthreads calls (since libpthread is working, right?).
> >
> > Can you explain WHY we should do this?
> >
> > Pthreads are implemented as calls to vfork(), so you get nothing.
> >
> > regards
> > Amadeus
> > --
> > We're back to the times when men were men
> > and wrote their own device drivers.
> >
> > (Linus Torvalds)
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>
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