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Fresco - Windowing system derived from a powerful structured graphics toolkit

Fresco (formerly known as Berlin) is a windowing system derived from a powerful structured graphics +toolkit originally based on InterViews. Fresco extends earlier incarnations +to the status of a full windowing system, in command of the video hardware +(via GGI, SDL, DirectFB or GLUT) and processing user input directly rather +than peering with a host windowing system.

Additionally, Fresco's extensions include a rich drawing interface with +multiple backends, an upgrade to modern CORBA standards, a new Unicode-capable +text system, dynamic module loading, and many communication abstractions for +connecting other processes to the server. It is developed entirely by +volunteers on the internet, using free software.

This project was formerly known as Berlin.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.fresco.org/
Source tarball	http://download.fresco.org/releases/M2/src/Fresco-M2.tar.gz
Source information	http://download.fresco.org/releases.html
Latest version	http://download.fresco.org/snapshots/Fresco-current.tar.gz

Version M2 (alpha) released on 2003-03-21

Licensed under LGPL.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User introduction available in HTML format from http://www.fresco.org/docs_i.html; Programmer reference available in HTML format from http://www.fresco.org/docs_d.html

Support contacts

Announce List	<fresco-announce@fresco.org> http://lists.fresco.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/fresco-announce
Developer List	<fresco-devel@fresco.org> http://lists.fresco.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/fresco-devel
Bug List	<fresco-devel@fresco.org> http://lists.fresco.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/fresco-devel
Bug Database	http://issues.fresco.org/

Project contacts

Maintainers	The Fresco project
Developers	Stefan Seefeld <stefan@fresco.org> Stephen Davies <chalky@fresco.org> Alexander Johannesen <alexander@fresco.org> Nathaniel Smith <njs@fresco.org> Nick Lewycky <nicholas@fresco.org> Neil Pilgrim <neiljp@fresco.org> Stefanus Du Toit <sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca> Tobias Hunger <tobias@fresco.org> Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Contributors	Graydon Hoare <graydon@pobox.com> Gnanasekaran Swaminathan <gs4t@virginia.edu> Stephane Rehel Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@debian.org>

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anonymous@src.fresco.org:/cvs/fresco http://download.fresco.org/cvs.html
Interfaces	console
Source languages	C++
Build prerequisites	g++, omniORB, GGI or SDL or DirectFB, Mesa or LibArt, FreeType2, libPNG, zlib
Related programs	Xfree86

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-11-18
Entry compiled by	Robert Millan

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