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CNET News: Red Hat Offers Linux Eye Candy Alternative

By Stephen Shankland

“The next version of Red Hat’s Fedora Linux will include
software to give the operating system some of the eye candy of a
rival Novell project–but it will use a less intrusive mechanism,
advocates say

“Novell’s project is called GLX, and Red Hat’s alternative is
AIGLX, short for Accelerated Indirect GL X. X refers to the Xorg
software that handles graphics in most Unix and Linux computers,
and GL to the OpenGL standard for 3D graphics…”

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