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We often read that X11 is slow because it's a server-client architecture, because it uses a protocol to exchange commands and more, saying that it's unusable for embedded systems. However proofs fail to show.

Today we did benchmark X11, framebuffer, DirectFB on our Freescale i.MX31 development board to measure impact and not surprisingly to us but maybe to lots of people, X11 did well.

UPDATE:The charts are about frames per second (FPS), so more is better.

UPDATE (2): Take x11-16 values with a grain of salt, it's faster than everything, including FB because it's already in the correct bit-depth and does not require the 32->16bpp conversion. We don't have native 16bpp engines for FB, DirectFB and that's why these are not measured.

ProFUSION is proud to announce the first public release of Guarana Framework and its demo Enjoy.

Guarana is a set of free software libraries to aid embedded application development. It comes with with a remote control access library, module loader, model-view-controller machinery, basic data structures and a fast growing widget set.

Enjoy is a demo music player targeted at embedded touchscreen devices. It uses Guarana's MVC and widgets and Emotion to play media. You can see a live demo running on Freescale's imx31:

We're proud to release a new version of LightMediaScanner, the fastest media scanner for your embedded device ;-)

This version now adds the direct relationship of audios and artists table, this will allow album-less audios to have an artist as well as have collections audios to display their artists.

Also new are the often requested single-process scan and progress reporting.

This week ProFUSION finished Enlightenment DR17 to Freescale's i.MX31 development board.

Port was straightforward, but lots of work since LTIB (Freescale's software development kit) lacked many packages, like X11 and other important components. These were all published in upstream LTIB mail list (EFL and others and X.org, E17 will be uploaded soon).

We posted some videos on Youtube and Google Video, check them out, be sure to watch the high-definition video in order to see the nice effects!