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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. competing with cairo? by rhavenn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Isn't the Xgl competing with Cairo? So, again we have 2 different ways of doing the same thing? Yeah, some people see this as good..but at this level isn't this just a waste of resources?