![]() ![]() Want to see another screenshot? Here’s a FLTK application running: But a tiny Linux distribution with graphical abilities is nothing special and even less something revolutionary! Is it Windows? No, Windows knows no X11 and thus no Nano-X – and Windows hasn’t fit in ~60 MB for ages! MacOS? To big, too and we were talking about a distribution. ![]() So what do you think from what you see? It looks fairly decent if maybe a bit unoriginal. ![]() “A graphical distribution using Nano-X and FLTK” Which OS? Now take a look at the desktop and guess, which operating system this is based on (and don’t look at the tags of this post if you don’t want to spoil the fun)! The uncompressed iso of the distribution is just a little over 60 MB in size. According to its site, FLTK is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux, Windows and MacOS X. Our example is a graphical distribution with a tiny display server (Nano-X), a simple window manager and FLTK ( Fast Light Tool Kit) as GUI toolkit. (That and I like it enough to think that it deserves some more attention outside the narrow scene that’s usually interested in such a thing!) An unusual distribution The last blog post was a little introduction to toolkits in general – now it’s time for a truly special case! While it doesn’t really fit completely with what we’re doing here, it’s close enough to provide a fine example. ![]()
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