Xgl Developer Calls it Quits

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."

Comments

Told you so!

[Anonymous Coward]

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), but the real work in X is being payed for by that favorite FOSS company that gives so much, but everyone loves to hate: Trolltech.

Here you have it folks. It is now time for the gnome fanboys to jump off of the Xgl bandwagon. And thank Trolltech for coming up with exa that will allow composite to work with todays existing stuff. Of course, with Trolltech employing the developers you can guess which desktop is going to have the advantage of bringing all the new eye candy to market...

Re:Good

[ironfroggy]

Actually layering X over OpenGL would result in less CPU drain, because the rendering would be hardware accelerated by your graphics card, instead of all processed by the CPU. Get you facts right, and stop being stubborn and not looking into the facts, first! That sort of mentality is the problem with the FOSS community!