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Sergii edited this page Sep 27, 2018 · 2 revisions

Core technologies the NEXTSPACE project is based on:

  • CentOS Linux 7 and its technologies (systemd, UDisks2, Xorg, etc.) - stable, enterprise level OS with long term support.
  • Clang 3.8.1 - Compiler from LLVM project.
  • libobjc2 - Objective-C 2.0 runtime by David Chisnall.
  • libdispatch - multithreading library by Apple.
  • GNUstep - OpenStep and beyond implementation. Additional functionality developed be me and fixes will go upstream when it will be ready.
  • WindowMaker - Part of Workspace application with numerous fixes, enhancements.

Frameworks

  • NXAppKit: GUI classes that can be useful in multiple applications (for example: ClockView, ProgressBar and ProgressPie).
  • NXSystem: system-specific classes go here (UDisks, UPower, D-BUS, XRandR, XKB, etc.).
  • NXFoundation: non-graphical utility classes (custom defaults and bundle management, etc.)

'NX' prefix is a tribute to the NeXTstep classes back in early 90th but has no connection to original NeXT's API.

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