non-x windows gui or os with linux kernel

[dan1]

I'm looking for a free-as-in-freedom os with a gui that is not x
windows or layered on top of x windows.

Can anyone recommend one?

I would sort of like it to use the linux kernel because of all the
hardware that is known to be supported. Also, something using the
linux kernel would presumably be more immune to project fatigue.

So it would be maybe something like haiku or syllable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable_%28operating_system%29

(Something like gnustep would be great, except that it is generally
both layered on top of x windows, and is in fact a whole layer itself,
as far as i know. But anybody please correct me if i'm wrong.)

I would be using this to write application programs (with a gui).

Thanks in advance for any info.

dan

[J G Miller]

On Sunday, February 27th, 2011 at 18:22:53 -0800, Dan1 explained:

> I'm looking for a free-as-in-freedom os with a gui that is not x windows
> or layered on top of x windows.

Apart from Windoze, the GUI is generally independent of the operating
system.

So you could use a Linux OS and instead of running X11, run the
no longer maintained Fresco (formerly known as Berlin) display server

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco_(windowing_system)>

or the new Wayland display server

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)>

Alternatively you could consider using the frame buffer directly
to write your own GUI via directb

<http://directfb.ORG/>

or with fbui

<http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/>

[John Espy]

In my opinion if one doesn't need X11, but needs to run GUI apps,
DirectFB works best.

[Alain-Pierre CHERTIER]

Why not investigating Qt-embedded which offers direct frame buffer
service and also offers a virtual frame buffer to help debugging
without having to put the software onto the real target ?
:-)
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