XGL Development Opens Up

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 2, 2006 @06:37PM from the prying-open-the-doors dept.

An anonymous reader writes "David Reveman has made the latest XGL source code available for download. This comes a few weeks after development of the project was criticized for being done 'behind closed doors'. There have been huge changes to XGL, the most significant being restructuring of the code, allowing XGL's GLX support to function on other drivers than the proprietary Nvidia one. Xcompmgr can currently be run under XGL with full acceleration provided that the proprietary ATI or Nvidia drivers are used. An OpenGL based compositing manager, 'Compiz' is currently in the works and a release is expected in February. David intends to get the code into freedesktop CVS as soon as possible, after which the code should eventually merge with Xorg."

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How do they know they are fixed... by Phariom · 2006-01-02 18:56 · Score: 4, Funny

"Compared to the xserver module code in freedesktop CVS a lot have changed. The new code contains an uncounted number of bug fixes, some major restructuring and a few additional features."

...if they didn't count them?
Re:Unfree by BillyBlaze · 2006-01-02 20:04 · Score: 3, Funny

I have an idea - nVidia could subsidize the tremendous task of writing open source video drivers with some sort of side business, like, oh I don't know, manufacturing video hardware.