| Wednesday Jun 13 2001 | The fbgetty has a project page on Savannah.
Savannah is like SourceForge
but maintened by the GNU project. Primary goal of Savannah was to host GNU projects, but it was extented to
host any free software project. Be prepared for a big move! |
| Wednesday May 23 2001 | The fbgetty web site is available by anonymous CVS. For more information look here. |
| Friday April 20 2001 | Some parts of the fbgetty documentation are available online here |
| Wednesday April 18 2001 | This day fbgetty homepage moved here.
Thanks to tuxfamily.org you will never get some kind of advices like on previous hosting service. The fbgetty project will probably gained a mailing list, some ftp space and a CVS repository. |
| Tuesday April 05 2001 | After a long week, the final 0.1.5 release is here.
Nothing new for the users since 0.1.5test. But check the code, some parts are cleaner but other ones are really strange (see include/fbgetty/generated). People using 0.1.4 are encouraged to upgrade. See NEWS. Download now fbgetty-0.1.5.tar.gz (229k) and test it. |
| Thursday March 01 2001 | At this time, I get no report for the test release. I will make an announcement for the test release on freshmeat by the end of the week. Then i will wait another week before releasing the 0.1.5 final release. I'm waiting for bugs. |
| Sunday February 25 2001 | I release today a test release for fbgetty-0.1.5. This one support long tag, program arguments, and much more. See NEWS. Download now fbgetty-0.1.5test.tar.gz (226k) and test it. |
| Tuesday September 19 2000 | 8 months later, a new fbgetty-0.1.5 pre release: fbgetty-0.1.5pre2. This one support the devfs naming scheme, correctly refresh login name. But memory management is quite bad. The linux_logo code is still there but it is not activated (see src/prompt.c) Patch from Max Berger is not included in this pre release, the long tag support will be in 0.1.5 final. The screen is still cleared, whenever you use the --screen-clear=off option, I still searching why (i suppose that a bad ioctl is issued) Download now fbgetty-0.1.5pre2.tar.gz (190k). |
| Monday January 31 2000 | fbgetty home page have moved here. Update your bookmarks Someone ask me for the fbgetty logo version, so I put a pre-version of fbgetty-0.1.5 in pre/. The fbgetty-0.1.5 official release will come shortly after. Just minor problem with linux-2.3.38 (framebuffer device) There is also a snapshot of the fbgetty-0.2.0 source tree for people interested by the future ... |
| Friday October 22 1999 | fbgetty-0.1.4: bug corrected. Now fbgetty will work with vga16fb. Download code here After a long time, I released it ... Some people will said that it's very late and they're true. Why fbgetty didn't work with vga16fb: the vga16fb work very differently from other framebuffer. vga16fb is 4 plans, one for each bit of the color. Video Memory is written via outb() instead of writting directly in the memory mmap'ed. fbgetty mapped is memory according to the screen resolution x,y,depth. vga16fb is only 64k, estimated memory is (640*480*4)/8 = 150k this was the problem. The next release will be 0.2.0, it will include many changes in the sources, support temcap,curses,ncurses, more portability, and perhaps include the linux penguin (Tux) for linux version (I have a running version with a penguin at login time, but I don't want to released it, because it will only run on 8bits depth PSEUDOCOLOR framebuffer on x86 arch) |
| Thursday July 08 1999 | I'm back from my exams, so development will restart fbgetty-0.1.3: locale support, preliminary exec support. See NEWS for more information. |
| Friday April 30 1999 | fbgetty-0.1.2: many improvement in code. See NEWS for more information. |
| Friday April 08 1999 | fbgetty-0.1.1: bug correct version (utmp/wtmp update). See NEWS for more information. |
| Monday March 29 1999 | fbgetty-0.1.0: New release, new files, no new fonctions. See NEWS for more information. |
| Wednesday March 17 1999 | fbgetty-0.0.7: Bug correct version. See NEWS for more information. |
| Monday March 15 1999 | fbgetty-0.0.6: second public release. See NEWS for more information. |
| Monday March 8 1999 | fbgetty-0.0.5: fisrt public release. |
All the documenation is here
The web site is now available via CVS. The fbgetty source code will follow. For those who don't know what CVS is, go here
First login:
cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.tuxfamily.org:/cvsroot/meuh.tuxfamily.org' login
At the password prompt, just hit return there is now password
Then checkout the source:
cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.tuxfamily.org:/cvsroot/meuh.tuxfamily.org' -z3 checkout module_name
Sometimes the source is updated, to keep synchronized use:
cd where the source code is
cvs -z3 update -P -d
If you want to rewrite/enhance/update this site, you can request a write access to the CVS repository. Send an email to meuh@tuxfamily.org. If your request is approved, you will get a user name and a password.
Now you need to login:
cvs -d ':pserver:username@cvs.tuxfamily.org:/cvsroot/meuh.tuxfamily.org' login
Type your password
And checkout the source (don't keep any anonymous source tree, since the
username is saved so you won't be able to commit changes):
cvs -d ':pserver:username@cvs.tuxfamily.org:/cvsroot/meuh.tuxfamily.org' -z3 checkout module_name
Then make your changes. If you think your changes are good, send them, but do not forgot to document. Please use the same format as ChangeLog.
cvs -z3 commit (Note: you commit all the changes made in the current directory by default. You can specify files to commit on the command line)
Currently the only one available module is www. This is the web site, it includes fbgetty and includes directory. The next step is to import fbgetty in the CVS repository.