:internetnews.com: Linux Desktops Get a Graphics Boost
internetnews.com: Linux Desktops Get a Graphics Boost Feb 7, 2006, 13 :45 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (16556 reads) (Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)
"The Linux desktop is about to get a 3-D makeover courtesy of Novell.
"Novell is contributing a new graphics subsystem called 'Xgl' and the associated 'Compiz' compositing manager to the granddaddy of all Linux and UNIX windowing infrastructures, X.org.
"The move may well herald in a new era of graphics power for Linux and according to Novell has already garnered the interest of the principal graphics chips vendors, Intel, ATI and Nvidia..."