Re: kdrive

[John Lenton <john@vialibre.org.ar>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 06:42:43PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> JL> I was wondering if there were any plans to package the kdrive
> JL> servers once 4.2 gets out?
> 
> At some point Samuele Tonon <samu@linuxasylum.net> was planning to
> package Xvesa, but I haven't heard from him since.  The two of you may
> want to get in touch.

cheers

> JL> If noone is planning to package them, I'll probably do so myself.
> 
> That would be great.  Could you please remember to include the Type 1
> and TrueType renderers when you do so?

Currently I have included no renderers but font server access.

> In addition, you should keep in mind that KDrive will work with no
> on-disk fonts or any other infrastructure, so a KDrive package should
> not depend on anything (although, of course, it can recommend half
> the universe)..

I have a static Xvesa w/font server access and a large busybox on
a diskette with a dhcp-aware kernel. Instant X terminal.

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