The LinuxDevices.com “Embedded Linux GUI/Windowing Quick Reference Guide” is a comprehensive guide to support for the graphics requirements of Embedded Linux based systems and devices. The guide covers the full range of embedded system alternatives to standard desktop software components, including low-level drivers, graphics servers, windowing enviroments, GUI toolkits, and browsers . . .

“When you install Linux on a desktop PC, you normally choose from among a few 'standard' graphics support components. You'll likely use the X Window system (XFree86) as the display interface foundation (with associated Linux drivers to control the hardware), GNOME or KDE as a windowing environment, and one of several full-featured browsers such as Netscape, Opera, or Mozilla.”

“But the typical desktop Linux 'graphics stack' isn't well suited to embedded Linux applications. Embedded devices frequently have highly constrained resources and can afford neither the program storage space nor the memory footprint of desktop graphics software. For example, embedded devices may easily have as little as 2 to 16 MB of Flash disk from which to load programs, and 4 to 32 MB of RAM memory in which to run them. But the typical desktop graphics components are notorious resource hogs . . .”

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