Posts tagged with " linux"
Debian gets a makeover
Holy crap. Have you heard the news? Debian have finally released something new.
“If all goes according to plan, Debian should release both an update to Debian Sarge (3.1r6, henceforth to be oldstable) and a new stable release (Debian 4.0, which was codenamed Etch) — and announce the results of the election for Debian Project Leader — all within 12 hours. Sarge was updated late on April 7th UTC, Sam Hocevar was announced as DPL at about 00:30 UTC, and preparations for the release of Debian Etch are ongoing and look good for later on the 8th.”
Things seem to be happening very quickly over at debian.org. What has got a fire up their ass I wonder? As someone over in Slashdot quoted:
“Two releases in one day! This is like a turtle suddenly accelerating to lightspeed.”
XGL and *nix
Even though I've been in China for the past 7 months I still find it incredible that I miss the coolest news that I've heard in a long time. Novell has contributed an amazing graphical system that in effect will in effect combine with the granddaddy of all Linux and UNIX windowing infrastructures, X.org.
XGL enables *nix systems to fully take advantage of 3-D acceleration hardware. XGL according to Novell's description is the X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL. That’s bloody fantastic news. It’s about time that a full 3D graphical component has been developed for nix users. It should also be noted that ATI and nvidia are taking a lot of notice about this announcement. Perhaps it will allow for 3D gaming, applications to be truly immersed in the Linux environment.
Anyhow it is expected that XGL will be integrated with X.org however this is 3rd party gossip but here's my fingers crossed. Once I get the net back in my new apartment I'll be firing this puppy up. Finally a world class totally modern graphics system that will last nix users for the next decade. Xgl may also prove to be the solution to a long-standing complaint of many: the lack of full 3-D hardware acceleration drivers for Linux. Fair play to Novell, they really are contributing a lot to the community however this really pumps up the importance of Novell Desktop 10 which is due this May/June.
Note - Since this act, Novell has turned to the darkside (Microsofts cookies were better it seems), boo hiss...