xgl - new XServer with OpenGL goodness

[Lovechild]

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/pipermail/xorg/2004-November/004358.html

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

[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.

[MaZiNgA]

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]

wow. that looks really cool.

[daniels]

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]

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]

Has anyone tried xgl? I heard an interview with Nat Friedman on The Linux Link Tech Show (http://thelinuxlink.net/tllts/) where he talks about the project (http://www.tllts.info/archives/tllts_71-02-16-05.mp3), 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.