This is a list of
display servers based on
X11,
Wayland,
Linux framebuffer and other systems.
X11
Wayland
1 A pivotal difference between
Android and the other
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is a Free and open-source software, free and open source Unix-like kernel (operating system), kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and was soon adopted as the k ...
-based operating systems is the
C standard library
The C standard library, sometimes referred to as libc, is the standard library for the C (programming language), C programming language, as specified in the ISO C standard.International Organization for Standardization, ISO/International Electrote ...
: Android's
libbionic is different in that it does not aim to support
POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX; ) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines application programming interfaces (APIs), along with comm ...
to the same extent as the other libraries. With the help of
libhybris it is possible to run Android-only software on other Linux kernel based operating systems, as long as this software does not depend on subsystems found only in the Android-forked Linux kernel, such as binder, pmem, ashmem, etc. Whether software programmed for Linux can run on Android, depends entirely on the extent to which libbionic matches the API of the
glibc
The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project implementation of the C standard library. It provides a wrapper around the system calls of the Linux kernel and other kernels for application use. Despite its name, it now also dir ...
.
2 provides device detection via
udev
udev (userspace ) is a device manager for the Linux kernel. As the successor of devfsd and hotplug, udev primarily manages device nodes in the directory. At the same time, udev also handles all user space events raised when hardware devices ...
, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction. also provides a generic
X.Org input driver.
support was first merged in Weston 1.5. and is also used by Mutter.
Linux framebuffer
*
DirectFB
*
DirectFB2
*
DirectFBGL
Other
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Quartz Compositor
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SPICE
In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, Bark (botany), bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of pl ...
*
SurfaceFlinger
See also
*
Display server
*
Windowing system
References
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Display servers
Computer graphics
Communications protocols