lists.freedesktop.org — We already have a server. One that works rather well. With AIGLX all this server is lacking is a nice way of accelerating common rendering primitives Glucose is that bridge. Between AIGLX and Glucose we have the complete solution. It uses XGL code and there is no duplicate code/work.
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exsstAug 16, 2006
Well, either way, all the best for linux and ubuntu.
edman007Aug 16, 2006
XGL breaks a lot of compatibility, AIGLX does not but is a bit lacking in some areas which this plans to fix, because AIGLX doesn't break compatibility its the one that is getting merged into X and that pretty much means XGL probably is never going to reach the level of usage of that AIGLX willby making this project they are just letting some of the extra features from XGL get moved into AIGLX so you don't have to break compatibility to use them
eplawlessAug 16, 2006
I guess he's going to use it with Ubuntu. Now that you mention Ubuntu, I just installed my copy and got XGL/Compiz running. Oh man, it wobbles and everything.
vanadaarAug 16, 2006
While XGL is nice, AIGLX uses the current xorg server, leaving the rendering to the hardware. I hope AIGLX can take the lead in this technology."Q: Where do babies come from?A: Montana."I thought beards came from Montana?
greyfadeAug 16, 2006
@marx: what? you're still using 6.9?get with the times, man. 7.0 is far more workable. (and upgrading to 7.1 is trivial.)
greyfadeAug 16, 2006
AIGLX is one of the 3 new X Window Server acceleration architectures. AIGLX, along with EGL, and Xgl have the common aim of providing a 3D-accelerated windowing system framework. it's not unlike Vista's Aero and Mac OS X Tiger's Aqua in that it makes possible (even SIMPLE, actually) hardware-accelerated windows and fancy 3D effects.Xgl is the only one at a truly usable state right now, and is little more than a PoC. it works, yes, but it runs like an Xnest on top of a running X server, in a window or fullscreen. it works exactly as vanilla X does, except with a compositing window manager, it can do stuff that's prettier, fancier, faster, and (in some ways) cooler than either Aero or Aqua.EGL is one approach to making a compositing 3D windowing system run standalone using embedded OpenGL interfaces. AIGLX takes it a step further.
mikeroysoftAug 17, 2006
if you can't tell the difference between X server and an ftp/apache/whatever server, you REALLY shouldn't be managing one...