June 20, 2005

linux Gui basic

1. X vs Xfree86
X is the protocol, while Xfree86 is the implementation of the standard.
it’s now doing the same as Motif, Xorg do.

2. X vs X11R6
X11R6 means X Protocol version 11 Release 6

3.XServer vs Window Manager(Kde, Gnome, etc.)
WM is not part of XServer.

4.Gnome/Kde is not just a Window Manager.

5.global view
linux本身–>X服务器< -[通过X协议交谈]->窗口管理器(综合桌面环境)–>X应用程序.

6.VESA,VGA ,fbdev
these are different display card’s driver

June 15, 2005

unix os resources

1.sco 507 download
ftp://vinegarfish:vinegarfish@221.3.232.214/sco/50X/[SCO.UNIX.openserver5.0.7].sco507.rar

and we can find serials there too.
2.linux dists
ftp://202.96.64.144/shrike-i386-disc1.iso
oracle9i, freebsd, debian, gentoo, redhat etc’s iso

3.oracle, solaris
ftp://166.111.121.3
ftp://plinux.org

June 9, 2005

linux Gui Programming

I found several online docs about motif gui programming.
1.http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/X_lecture/
2.http://www.ftlinuxcourse.com/FTLC_Complete/ExternalContribs/FTeBooks/index.html

as for Gtk+ , this is one tutorial:http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/
Look at this one for KDE/qt :http://perso.wanadoo.es/antlarr/tutorial.html

available blog space

1.www.spymac.com
1G mail space, photo sharing, 100M webspace

2.http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/user/register
3.http://member.gameres.com/register.asp
Chinese website of game resources and offer blog space to user
4.http://blog.dev-club.com
space for developers