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5 Main (and only) author:
6 Aurelien Reynaud (dedale1 at users dot sourceforge dot net)
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9 First of all, thank you for taking interest in this project!
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11 I have been following the GGI/KGI effort for many years now with a strong interest,
12 as I see it as the (admittedly long term) ultimate future for console and graphics
13 subsystems in Unix-like OSes.
14 However, I never contributed any code to the core projects, mostly due to a lack of
15 time and ageing programming skills (which date back to my school years!).
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17 But the time had come to give back to the community more than 'thanks for the hard
18 work'. So I scratched my head and wondered what kind of useful piece of software I
19 could put together, which would both increase my programming skills to a level where
20 I can later consider contributing kernel code, and still help the GGI project as a
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23 A terminal application for GGI fits admirably into this scheme:
24 - GGI programming
25 - console subsystem
26 - use of the Freetype library
27 - i18n mysteries (conversion between character codes, unicode)
28 - GNU build tools (automake, autoconf, etc...)
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30 I decided to start from scratch, but used as a source of inspiration an already
31 existing project: nixterm, written by Andrew Apted. As of today, this project seems
32 to be abandoned (or considered done) by his author, but I nonetheless would like to
33 thank him here for the good work he did.
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37 Aurelien Reynaud, 06/26/2003
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