Novell Makes Public Release of Xgl Code

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."

Comments

Re:Finally!

[CRCulver]

I've been waiting a long time for this. And this [gnome.org], and this [beaglewiki.org], and this [nat.org].

So you've been waiting a long time to see the Free Software world destroyed by Microsoft in patent disputes because we foolishly accepted the trojan horse that is Mono.?

Heavens, what a blatant rip.

[Qbertino]

My gosh, that's what I call a blatant Rip of Apples Expose. But it's cool. A rip - but a cool one nonetheless.
Goes to show a basic rule: A flat-out rip is allways better than a sad and sorry failure at rying to be 'innovative'. Yet that Novell lacks the balls to openly admit that it's inspired by OS X and Expose goes to show what losers they are.

At last, finally OSS has beaten Microsoft in their prime field of expertise. Copying stuff from Apple. :-)

Suddenly...

[TonyMillion]

A million mac users look up and say 'huh, wasn't that like 2 years ago'?