fbgetty

This is the old fbgetty site at the new project address: http://projects.meuh.org/fbgetty/. Update your bookmarks.

Mailing lists are still hosted by Savannah. Just rename fbgetty-listname AT meuh.eu.org to fbgetty-listname AT nongnu.org.

The public CVS repository is closed.
I'm planning to use GNU arch/TLA instead.

The site is back online. Page desappeared in a disk crash. This outtage was fixed shortly, but i haven't found time to upgrade the cvs to the new disk scheme.
Developpement on fbgetty is frozen, I have other projects to close before working on the new version of fbgetty.

There's some minor cosmetics bugs with fbgetty-0.1.698 (and previous): some informations must be better display: configure result and fbgetty --compile, issue is not concerned.

For MIPS users, there's a bug in config.guess and config.sub, so before trying to configure the package, they have to download new version of those scripts:

    $ tar xvzf fbgetty-0.1.698.tar.gz
    $ cd fbgetty-0.1.698/config
    $ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/config.guess
    $ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/config.sub
    $ chmod a+x config.guess
    $ chmod a+x config.sub
    $ cd ..
    $ ./configure.default 
    $ make
    $ su
    # make install
   

fbgetty-0.1.698 is released today
New from fbgetty-0.1.698test2: a tag to print terminal speed, a minimal support for job control. Check NEWS for a more release information. Download now fbgetty-0.1.698.tar.gz (273k)

The 0.1 branch is officially closed. Next development for release 0.2 will focus on a better code design. CVS will be updated on default branch (HEAD).

Happy New Year (with a new fbgetty ;).

fbgetty-0.1.698test2 is released today
This new test release add some new features for the login prompt. Patch against fbv is updated for 0.95. The configure script is also upgraded: more check, smarter configuration summary.

Check NEWS for a more release information. Download now fbgetty-0.1.698test2.tar.gz (271k)

fbgetty-0.1.698test is released today
The fbgetty-0.1.698 test release is available. The secure exec feature seems to be correct now (no more crash all programs ran later on the tty).
Please test it as much as you can, especially interactions between shell's job control (bash, tcsh, zsh, etc), emacs and ssh. Report all strange behavior. The fbgetty-0.1.698 release will appear before the end of year 2001, and then, the 0.1.6 branch will be closed.

Check NEWS for a more release information. Download now fbgetty-0.1.698test.tar.gz (269k) and TEST it.

I will be quite unavailable during the next 2 weeks, so don't expect to find me on IRC. Notice that i'm no more always on channel #fbgetty from the irc.tuxfamily.org server for some months. Send an email to make an appointement with me if you want to discuss.

fbgetty-0.1.69 is released today

I said the 0.1 branch was closed, but it appears that i cannot make what i want!
Why this released is numbered 0.1.69 ? The only open branch that is currently openned is 0.1.6, and i did not want to open the fbgetty-0_1_7-branch in CVS (need merge, then new branch), so no 0.1.7 version. 0.1.6.1 was a solution, but i don't want 4 numbers version, 0.1.6a was another i didn't want. The solution I found was to add a number after the minor version number: 0.1.60, 0.1.61. 0.1.66 was my first choice, but i found more funny 0.1.69, so here is the fbgetty-0.1.69 release. Future version won't have this numbering problems: they will be named fbgetty-[major].[minor].[patchlevel], so next fbgetty will be 0.2 (perhaps patched as 0.2.1)

This test release was made for Debian maintainer purpose, it support a more powerfull secure exec support for running program from issue. Autoconf-2.52e was used for the configure script.

See NEWS for a more (but not) complete information. Download now fbgetty-0.1.69.tar.gz (264k) and enjoy.

fbgetty-0.1.6 is released today
This release includes a new vt switching code (more faster, no longer lock screen), extended syntax in issue parsing, UTMPX, new long tags, many bugs corrected. See NEWS for a more (but not) complete information. Download now fbgetty-0.1.6.tar.gz (260k) and enjoy.

The fbgetty source code is now available through a public CVS server, see cvs information

Also available now, a bug tracking system, see bug tracking section for information about how using it.

The web site is now edited through CVS. Just commit the changes, and they appear on the site. Changes are logged on mailling: fbgetty-www-commit@meuh.eu.org

The fbgetty source code will be on CVS by the end of the week. Yes, really, after too long time!

No new release, some patches were available on mailing list. I still waiting for porting fbgetty to ia64.

Please check the cvs informations, because it was migrated. Still no fbgetty repository, only the web site is available. It's now possible to browse the cvs repository online

The mailing list were also migrated, they are now hosted by Savannah. Alias are setup, so don't worry about how send message, the old address are still valid. But the subscription mechanism and the archive are changed

New: check out fbsh. It's an another fbgetty able to display XPM pictures. There is also the fbsh program that run a shell in graphical window on the framebuffer, it's quite limited but interesting

New fbgetty homepage (another one :-). Still hosted by TuxFamily.org. No public ftp access at this time, but mailing lists exists now. CVS hosting is not currently decided: savannah or tuxfamily ?

Problems were reported by debian package maintainer:

• issue tags problems : fixed but not released yet
• build failure with GCC 3.0 on Mips
• strange behaviour on PowerPC: fbgetty print y-umlauts forever See fbgetty debian package bug database.