xgl - new XServer with OpenGL goodness

**Lovechild** · February 9th, 2005

Novell hired a new guy to code us up a new XServer, and so far it seem to be coming along great. Words can't express how happy I am with this development, I love new toys.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/piperma...er/004358.html

And look, GNOME already runs on it.. yay
http://www.cs.umu.se/~c99drn/pics/xgl-shot.png

**daniels** · February 9th, 2005

davidr has been doing Xgl for quite some time now (it's based on KDrive, the same DEVELOPMENT/EXPERIMENTAL X server -- it is not usable as a daily X server; not even close), and it's absolutely awesome that he's now hired to work on it full-time.

**MaZiNgA** · February 9th, 2005

Originally Posted by daniels

davidr has been doing Xgl for quite some time now (it's based on KDrive, the same DEVELOPMENT/EXPERIMENTAL X server -- it is not usable as a daily X server; not even close), and it's absolutely awesome that he's now hired to work on it full-time.

Sweet! Sounds great I can't wait... Will it be released under GPL?

**jdodson** · February 9th, 2005

wow. that looks really cool.

**daniels** · February 9th, 2005

None of X is released under the GPL; it is all under the MIT/X11 licence, or the three-clause BSD licence. This is the licence that is on Xgl.

**rwabel** · February 9th, 2005

Finally linux desktops get faster. I really admired the speed of MAC OSX !

maybe it will find its way in a futur ubuntu testing branche. I would adore that!

**enquiry** · February 18th, 2005

Has anyone tried xgl? I heard an interview with Nat Friedman on The Linux Link Tech Show where he talks about the project, and he said that the only reason why he wasn't using it on a daily basis was that he had an ATI card with it's buggy driver. He gave directions to this site: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Xserver where there's supposed to be a script for installing it, but I couldn't find anything.