“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…”
CNET News: Red Hat Offers Linux Eye Candy Alternative
By
Stephen Shankland
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