Novell's XGL code posted

[Posted January 3, 2006 by corbet]

The December 22 LWN Weekly Edition contains an article on how a significant amount of XGL (X over OpenGL) work has been done behind closed doors at Novell. XGL hacker David Reveman has now posted Novell's code with a request that it be added to the freedesktop.org CVS repository. Large amounts of work have been done; see David's mail for the summary. Now all that work has to be somehow merged with what the rest of the XGL developers have been doing in the open; this may turn out to be a long process.

Novell's XGL code posted

Posted Jan 3, 2006 13:59 UTC (Tue) by brugolsky (guest, #28) [Link]

I don't know what led to the code dump, but some credit might go to Dave Airlie's renewed effort to get Xegl working. From the perspective of a closed development group some public grumbling doesn't change much, but a diverging open codebase does. Thanks Dave.

Novell's XGL code posted

Posted Jan 4, 2006 2:08 UTC (Wed) by N0NB (guest, #3407) [Link]

This is indeed good news to get the new year started off right.