On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 19:29 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
On 2/1/06, Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)mharris.ca> wrote:
Benjy Grogan wrote:
> I hear that in a week or so Novell will be releasing the
source code to
> XGL for X11 7.0. Will it be possible to have XGL available
in Extras
> for FC5? I'm guessing it's one of those new X11 modules
that v7.0 is
> all about. But I know little about XGL and would like to
test it out to
> know more. It's going to be in NLD 10 in a few months.
There are a lot of X related "goodies" that are up and coming
in the
X development world, including technologies being developed by
Red Hat,
Novell, Sun, and various others in the community. The current
plan for
Fedora Core 5, is to ship X11R7.0 as the official X
implementation,
including the Xorg X server.
The various developmental/experimental technologies being
developed
by the above parties will most likely be available to Fedora
users in
one form or another over time, however everything is quite
experimental
at the current point in time to make any solid speculation for
the
inclusion of other components into Fedora Core 5 at this time.
Maybe Fedora could do something like was done with SELinux? Where it
was available in FC2 but not by default. In an update for X11 from
7.0 to 7.1 for FC5 the Xgl branch could be included along with
instructions on how to enable it. This is how Novell will be
introducing Xgl to it's NLD10 distribution. It seems like a good way
to get Xgl tested early and it's the perfect place for it to take
place, in Fedora.
I'm eager to see how Xgl works. :) And then I guess compiz would be
the next request. ;)
Benji
fyi
just tried the fresh fc5 xgl rpms from
http://spot.livejournal.com/253304.html
and it works great here on a geforce 6600gt.
finally some candy to play with for us poor nvidia driver users! :-)
big thanks to Spot !!
cheers
--
Lars G <terraformers(a)gmail.com>