On 3/12/06, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
>
> Well!
>
> It looks like Novell is trying really hard, successfully I might add, to
> deliver a top notch system. With the OSS release of XGL we can now give
> X-windows the power available in most of our video cards. Many people
> today
> have pretty decent 3D capabilities which X simply cannot utilize.
>
> A tester of Gentoo with XGL installed said he would have liked to say it
> was
> "breathtaking", "astonishing" and "jawdropping" but simply could not say
> so.
> It would be a "gross understatement"!
>
> A live CD is available called Kororaa. Beware heavy traffic on servers!
>
> http://kororaa.org
>
> I think we'll see more people moving to SuSE... : ) Kinda funny after last
> weeks discussion. Novell is also dropping their name on the distro and
> going
> back to calling it SuSE.
>
Ubuntu also has Xgl working in Dapper Drake. It's unfortunate that my only
computer with enough horsepower to take advantage of it is limping along
right now.
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