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Re: [News] XOrg Gets New Acceleration architecture: Glucose

__/ [ [H]omer ] on Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:29 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> | - it's an OpenGL based acceleration architecture,
> 
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-August/017527.html
> 
> This is a very welcome, if predictable, step forward, particularly for
> Fedora, that favours aiglx over XGL.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx

I believe that I initially heard of (read about) AIGLX in the context of
seminal work on Compiz/XGL. It was some project that took place at Red Hat's
labs at the time and was called Luminocity (sic). Let me get that link with
videos of wobbling menus.

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/temp/seth/blog/xshots.html

There we go... that eccentric Seth guy back in March 2005. The dawn of XGL??
I found that on Slashdot <
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/03/27/linux-eye-candy/ >. Here's
one which I read about much later... around the time that Novell demo'ed XGL
in their new GNOME/Tango desktop (SLED 10 prototype)

http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6042651.html

,----[ Quote ]
| Novell's project is called Xgl, and Red Hat's alternative is AIGLX, short
| for Accelerated Indirect GL X. X refers to the Xorg software that handles
| graphics in most Unix and Linux computers, and GL to the OpenGL standard
| for 3D graphics.
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