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Kororaa Releases XGL LiveCD
Tony Tony Chopper writes "The team from Kororaa who brought us a GUI based Gentoo installer have just released the first live CD to use xgl technology. From Kororaa.org, the lead developer Chris writes 'Today I am happy to release a Kororaa Live CD showcasing Xgl technology.' The response so far have been incredibly positive, an article at tuxmachines.org is glowing with much praise and few complaints. For those who love eye-candy but don't want to mess with their existing installs, this is the perfect opportunity to see what Xgl is about. The torrent can be downloaded from LinuxTracker."
The main site is down for some reason (slashdot does that). The torrent is mirrored at: http://mirrors.atarack.com/Kororaa-Xgl-Live-CD-0.1 .torrent
We have ISO mirrors here for the impatient:
(thanks to softpedia)
here (thanks to rdt1.org)
here (thanks to Mudrii)
here (thanks to Hotel Peter)
here (thanks to Over Confident)
here (thanks to sefcom)
here (thanks to Digital Extortion), and
here (thanks to Chris Peters from Canada)
here (Atarack VDS/VPSes who are our proud sponsors)
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"Well the graphics are cool, but does it actually increase how useable my computer is?"
Yes. Of course not automatically, but it does provide a technical means that makes things possible that will increase usability. Take the expose like feature, or live previews when alt-tabbing, for example. And will of course make implementing accessibility (sp?) like zooming much easier to implement.
"Not to mention the obivous questions like "will my crappy integrated graphics card even come close to running this?""
I think one of the best things about XGL (and AIGLX for that matter) is that the hardware requirements for this are actually pretty low. So if you integrated graphic chip does do opengl, it should work.
Of course keep in mind that this thing is still in beta and that many drivers still lack the opengl extensions needed, so that many things that later will be done in hardware are now actually done with mesa in software.
That said, despite these problems, XGL runs very smooth on my quite old and not very powerful Geforce.
http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL#Prerequisites
* Because some people still have USB 1.0
* Because not everyone can boot from USB
* Because practically everyone has a CD drive
* Because it's easier to boot from a CD
* Because it's a lot cheaper to give your friend a CD than a thumb drive
Xorg isn't licenced under GPL, it's mostly BSD / MIT (apart from things like fonts). Since Xgl is part of Xorg it too is under an MIT style licence. Being GPL would make things like binary drivers legally very dubious.