xgl

Introducing KDE 4: "Then Compiz came, originally designed by Novell along with XGL, but, even if it can be used with KDE, it obviously was designed with GNOME in mind."

"The impending release of Windows Vista with its fancy Aero Glass special effects, along with the hasty addition of the similar XGL and Compiz technologies to the latest SUSE Linux release makes me think that ...

"Novell is announcing its contribution of the Xgl graphics subsystem and the 'Compiz' compositing manager to the X.org project.

David Reveman has made the latest XGL source code available to download. This comes a few weeks after development of the project was criticised for being done 'behind closed doors'.

There have been huge changes ...

"Novell is announcing its contribution of the Xgl graphics subsystem and the 'Compiz' compositing manager to the X.org project.

Either way, some Vista publicity stunt won't convince me or any serious gamers either. Maybe if Windows 7 allowed me to replace the display manager with XGL and run KDE4.1 natively, I'd consider it, otherwise, no thanks.

A short review of Mandriva 2007 RC2 , outlining the new Xgl/Aiglx and Compiz 3D desktop.

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 27th Feb 2006 07:10 UTC, submitted by fsmdave 3D graphics on X11: XGL vs AIGLX.