Last June, Bluepoint Linux Software announced that Yongming Wei, founder of the open source MiniGUI project, had joined the company's Beijing R&D center as its technology director. Since that time, BluePoint has continued its support of the MiniGUI project, and release 0.9 of MiniGUI is now available for download at the project's website.

The goal of MiniGUI is to provide a small windowing system support library, which offers the equivalent window management functions of Win32 APIs. The objective is to provide an easy and practical GUI system that can be used anywhere Windows CE can be used. MiniGUI is released as open source software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Typical system resource requirements are . . .

• Linux kernel: 300KB – 500KB (depending on system)
  
• MiniGUI supporting libraries: 300KB – 400KB
  
• MiniGUI resource (fonts, bitmaps, etc.): 800KB
  
• Input device support: 400KB
  
• Applications: 1MB – 2MB (depending on system)
  
• Total: 2MB – 4MB

 
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