AIGLX compared with Novell XGL

[Rahul]

Albert Graham wrote:
> Hi Trond,
> 
> I would like to hear your thoughts on the Novell version of XGL as shown 
> in this cool google video:
> 
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-199899523054020719&q=Linux
> 
> Is the Fedora version anywhere as advanced as this ?, the last time I 
> tried it, it really screwed up my configuration and it took a lot of 
> yuming to fix.

  ... which is the reason it wasnt installed by default and marked 
experimental. Anyway you are seeing Compiz which is a window manager 
that provides the whiz bang effects and confusing that with the 
underlying framework. Metacity has a compositing manager with similar 
effects and Compiz can run on AIGLX too.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-June/msg00982.html

As I said earlier AIGLX is part of Xorg 7.1 and easily enabled now.

More information on what all this means is available at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject


> 
> For me, watching this video make me feel really jealous,  However, I 
> agree with the Fedora development approach on the GLX issues but, Novel 
> have all this candy "in the here and now", and I think that makes a big 
> difference, are we talking Fedora 10 ?

Xorg 7.1 will be part of Fedora Core 6.

Rahul