Thread: SUSE Linux 10
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Old 02-03-2006, 00:20   #9
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Re: SUSE Linux 10
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Originally Posted by Gareth
Nope... tell me more
Basically is impliments an X server using OpenGL, so every window is rendered as a texture by your 3D card. Not only does this make it very fast, but it means that all sorts of fancy effects can be achieved.

It was released a couple of weeks ago by Novell -- there are videos all over the net, but the best one is here:

http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi

(that's a 57MB download, but I'm guessing on 10 Meg that won't be a problem...)

I've been trying out Xgl on the development version of Ubuntu, and I have to say it's fantastic.

Who needs Vista!
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