# Is anyone using DirectFB?

**URL:** <https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/is-anyone-using-directfb/22616>\
**Category:** SDL Development\
**Created:** [June 11, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/is-anyone-using-directfb/22616 "2017-06-11T05:38:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/is-anyone-using-directfb/22616/15 "2018-06-07T15:00:02Z")

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Interesting to see continued activity in this thread!

It’s worth noting that DirectFB is now very firmly in the “dead projects” category after a few false deaths! The main author, Denis Kropp has now moved onto other projects.

It’s probably still worth keeping around for existing codebases, but I don’t think there will be any new developments in this space.

One of the main backers, Broadcom, are no longer supporting it much.

As to whether /dev/fb support would help, the answer is maybe - if what you’re doing is single window stuff, perhaps it could. DirectFB has a multiapp mode though which wouldn’t be helped by this.

SDL2 is actually potentially useful for migration since it support both DirectFB and GL platforms.

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