Amancio Hasty wrote...
>
> SGI is releasing GLX 8)
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990216/ca_silicon_2.html
>
> Have Fun,
> Amancio
>
> P.S.: If companies start dumping large packages is going to weight us down :(
Heh. That's pretty cool. Although I wouldn't say that GLX itself is
exactly huge.
What they've released is basically the X server side connecting glue that
allows connecting up OpenGL to an X server. Here's a snippet from the
readme:
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GLX is used to connect an X server and an OpenGL implementation. By
itself, the GLX distribution is incomplete. XFree86 (or other code based
on the X11R6 release) provides the X server.
=====
They aren't releasing, however, their OpenGL implementation. Here's what
they said about that:
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Please do not deluge SGI with requests to make our SI available as open
source. We are fully aware of the issues involved.
=====
Apparantly Red Hat and some other company (Precision Insight) are working
on getting Mesa to work with GLX.
Ken
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