SiMoNsAyS Posted February 23, 2006 Posted February 23, 2006 Xgl is an X server architecture, started by David Reveman, layered on top of OpenGL via glitz. Nowadays, most PCs are shipped with a 3D graphics card (foremostly from NVIDIA or ATI Technologies) and Xgl allows the X server to take advantage of its 3D processing power, assuming suitable drivers are available.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XglOfficial PageSo now you're wondering... what it really can do! Check the video!!
harunaksoy Posted February 24, 2006 Posted February 24, 2006 I have seen this before and I have to admit that it looks really cool, but it's so **** hard to install it
EchoNoise Posted February 28, 2006 Posted February 28, 2006 True that it might be a bit difficult to setup, I had it running but it took up too many resources, and my graphics card couldn't handle the spinning desktop feature for some odd reason...But other than that, its pretty good DENY APPLE... haha... erm
DigeratiPrime Posted February 28, 2006 Posted February 28, 2006 my guess is it will have the eye candy of vista using half the ram.
DigeratiPrime Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 The Kororaa project has released a live CD demonstrating the new Xgl technology for 3D window manipulation and other unusual effects: "Today I am happy to release a Kororaa live CD showcasing Xgl technology. If you would like to find out what it's all about, then download the CD and boot up your PC! The Live CD comes with X.Org 7.0, GNOME 2.12.2, 3D support and of course Xgl. Supported drivers are 'nvidia' (NVIDIA) and 'fglrx' (ATI). Minimum recommended configuration is Pentium 3 with NVIDIA GeForce video card."http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=1604http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=16...-CD-0.1.torrent
DigeratiPrime Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 i tried out the kororaa xgl livecd 0.1 and i must say that XGL is extremely impressive. the features, stability and performace of it far exceeds what I've seen from Vista DWM in beta 2
SiMoNsAyS Posted March 13, 2006 Author Posted March 13, 2006 it is supposed to be included on the next ubuntu relase (dapper drake 6.04) which will be available on april (it is said to be delayed a month or so).dapper will also include the next gnome version
DigeratiPrime Posted March 13, 2006 Posted March 13, 2006 do you know if it will be enabled on by default? That might be going a little too fast, as xgl is rather new.
SiMoNsAyS Posted March 13, 2006 Author Posted March 13, 2006 not included but available on the repositories and can be installed with just a line on the terminal
prathapml Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 I was hoping XGL would be included in Fedora Core 5, what with the 5 days delay & all...But no
war59312 Posted April 10, 2006 Posted April 10, 2006 Um prathapml did you figure out how to get it installed for Fedora Core 5 ?
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