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DirectFB - Hardware-accelerated graphics library on top of the Linux framebuffer device

'DirectFB' is a thin library that provides developers with hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, an integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux framebuffer device. It is a complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.directfb.org/
Source tarball http://www.directfb.org/download/DirectFB/DirectFB-0.9.20.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.directfb.org/download/
Version 0.9.20 (stable) released on 2003-10-23
Licensed under LGPLv2orlater.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User README available in HTML format from http://www.directfb.org/download/DirectFB/README; User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.directfb.org/documentation/faq.xml; Developer tutorial available in HTML format from http://www.directfb.org/documentation/tutorials.xml; Developer reference manual available in HTML format from http://www.directfb.org/documentation/reference.xml
Support contacts

Help List<directfb-users@directfb.org> <ecartis@directfb.org> subject: subscribe directfb-users
Developer List<directfb-dev@directfb.org> <ecartis@directfb.org> subject: subscribe directfb-dev

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • See the AUTHORS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@directfb.org:/cvs/directfb login http://directfb.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
Interfaceslibrary
Source languagesC
Use requirementsLinux kernel 2.2.x or later, freetype 2.0.1 or later, libjpeg62, libpng2 *or* libpng3, zlib
Weak prerequisitesSDL

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-04-06
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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