Silicon Graphics Releases OpenGL Windowing Code to Open Source Community Via World Wide Web | Linux Today

Silicon Graphics Releases OpenGL Windowing Code to Open Source Community Via World Wide Web

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 16, 1999

Thanks to Jeremy
Allison
for this link.

“Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: SGI) today announced it has
released GLX source code into the Open SourceTM community, setting
the stage for OpenGL® API hardware acceleration on Linux®,
and other platforms based on the UNIX® operating system.”

“Silicon Graphics is working with Red Hat Software, Inc. and
Precision Insight, Inc. to enhance the GLX source code for use with
XFree86…”


Complete press release
.

Web Webster

Web Webster

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