Accelerated Indirect GL X

In addition to the launch of Fedora Core 5 Test 3, Fedora has also released some information to one of their recent projects -- AIGLX or Accelerated Indirect GL X. Accelerated Indirect GL X is apart of the Fedora Rendering Project. The focus of AIGLX is to enable OpenGL-accelerated effects on a standard desktop. Fedora's AIGLX runs off a slightly modified X server, which includes a couple of additional extensions, updated Mesa package, and a version of Metacity with a composite manager. Cairo, Composite, GTK+, Metacity, OpenGL, Pango, and Luminocity are the core components to a functioning AIGLX environment. Sound familiar to Novell's Xgl? Well, here is an excerpt from the Fedora Wiki pertaining to the differences -- XGL is a different X server. This is a more incremental change which is slated to become part of Xorg. We don't believe that replacing the entire X server is the right path, and that improving it incrementally is a better way to modernize it. After talking to people at xdevconf, it felt like much of the upstream Xorg community shares this view. You can search [WWW] Adam Jackson's notes for "large work for Xgl" to get the blow-by-blow or NVidia's [WWW] presentation from XDevConf 2006 on using the existing model. Installation instructions for Fedora Core 5 Test 3 and AIGLX are also in the Wiki. We will cover more on Accelerated Indirect GL X and are looking at posting some initial Phoronix AIGLX images tomorrow.