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Xgl Developer Calls it Quits

Posted by timothy on from the dwindling-incentives dept.

nosoupforyou writes "Jon Smirl, one of two main developers for Xgl and Xegl (a version of X layered on top of OpenGL and rendering directly to the linux framebuffer, similar to Apple's Quartz Extreme) is calling it quits. Citing two years of effort without pay, a shortage of interest from developers, and no hope of release for more than a year, Jon is moving on."

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  1. Re:Told you so! by aCapitalist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Xgl has been heavily backed by Novell/RedHat and the gnome fanboys (well, by 'backed' I mean hyped as if this was going to save gnome's arse)

    So what's going to save KDE's ass? The only thing I can think of is someone buying trolltech and giving Qt a decent license.