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Novell Makes Public Release of Xgl Code

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the walking-the-walk dept.

hamfactorial writes "Novell has announced the public availability of the Xgl code, an openGL accelerated X server layer. Available binaries ought to be coming soon for distributions running the modular X.org 7.0 release (possibly 6.9, though unconfirmed). A temporary page for Xgl information is up at the openSUSE website. This is the same code that was running in the Novell Linux Desktop 10 preview videos as seen earlier. Further information is also available at Miguel De Icaza's blog."

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  1. Novell by MarkChovain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Novell is still spreading. Slowly but surely, it will really be betting my business plan on that employee's ability to re-open closed tabs.

    1. Re:Novell by kclittle · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Here, take your meds and go back to your room, ok? No, no, your rooms over there...

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    2. Re:Novell by MarkChovain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      My room while on their site. Otherwise, you'll see a roughly consistent set of newly developed programs within the transaction completed, or it didn't happen at all.

    3. Re:Novell by MarkChovain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      sure if it's a good living building, fixing, and networking MS DOS systems and went through this, but for me to be detained for anything.

  2. Re:Linux ready for the desktop by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude! What year is it where you are? Go here: http://fedora.redhat.com/ download and instal the distro, and use KDE.

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