Ideally, you'd have 1280x960, but since 960 isn't a multiple of 128 (or 256), it messes up various hardware blitting methods.
One of the popular VGA modes was 320x256 (which is in the 5:4 ratio). It meant that you could have an array of scanlines, and index them with a single byte (with no wastage).
The best thing I found was to ignore trying to make the bootloader and the code to get into protected mode. Instead, use GRUB (look on freshmeat) to load your kernel.
A license is something that declares the rights of whoever receives the release. Thus, if some code merely sits on my harddrive, there is no concept of it being "GPL'd".
Likewise, I could release it separately under 3 different licenses. Of course, only 1 license applies to you when you download it... it's just a matter of determining which license you've selected (for example, different links, or different tarballs).
Now technically speaking, since Carmack released the Doom source code into the public domain (forgive me if I'm wrong about that), then I can take the code, burn it onto a CD, and release it under whatever license I like -- and it's perfectly legal. There aren't any "conflicting licenses", since public domain releases are (by definition) unlicensed.
I wish people would stop saying "I want you to GPL ThisSoftware", or "is that software GPL'd?". You should be saying things like "that software has been released under the GPL".
A friend of mine wrote quite a nice package called Lithium that has a GTK GUI, and it sounds like it'd probably fit what you want. I couldn't find it anywhere (seems to have disappeared), but the author is James Wilson.
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apt-get install common.sense
Well, I'm still waiting for
apt-get install athlon-1GHz
Hmmm... doesn't seem to work - Must be a bug. I'll see what I can do... look out for my patch (any day now...)
Just dunk it in some 30 mol acid (Hydrochloric acid works well).
It tends to remove the writing on top of the keys, but who needs them?
Oh, just make sure you wear a nose+mouth mask - the fumes are actually toxic (no joke).
David.
Ideally, you'd have 1280x960, but since 960 isn't a multiple of 128 (or 256), it messes up various hardware blitting methods.
One of the popular VGA modes was 320x256 (which is in the 5:4 ratio). It meant that you could have an array of scanlines, and index them with a single byte (with no wastage).
David.
I'd definitely recommend checking out the OS FAQ:
Here
A license is something that declares the rights of whoever receives the release. Thus, if some code merely sits on my harddrive, there is no concept of it being "GPL'd".
Likewise, I could release it separately under 3 different licenses. Of course, only 1 license applies to you when you download it... it's just a matter of determining which license you've selected (for example, different links, or different tarballs).
Now technically speaking, since Carmack released the Doom source code into the public domain (forgive me if I'm wrong about that), then I can take the code, burn it onto a CD, and release it under whatever license I like -- and it's perfectly legal. There aren't any "conflicting licenses", since public domain releases are (by definition) unlicensed.
I wish people would stop saying "I want you to GPL ThisSoftware", or "is that software GPL'd?". You should be saying things like "that software has been released under the GPL".
A friend of mine wrote quite a nice package called Lithium that has a GTK GUI, and it sounds like it'd probably fit what you want. I couldn't find it anywhere (seems to have disappeared), but the author is James Wilson.