Notes
Interesting article about how to bunk the Chinese Censorship System
Sounds like there should have been a bit more collaboration here…companies…arg…
XGL is a different X server. This is a more incremental change which is slated to become part of Xorg. We don’t believe that replacing the entire X server is the right path, and that improving it incrementally is a better way to modernize it. After talking to people at xdevconf, it felt like much of the upstream Xorg community shares this view. You can search
Adam Jackson’s notes for “large work for Xgl” to get the blow-by-blow or NVidia’s
We’ve been working on the AIGLX code for a some time with the community, which is in direct contrast with the way that XGL was developed. XGL spent the last few months of its development behind closed doors and was dropped on the community as a finished solution. Unfortunately, it wasn’t peer reviewed during its development process, and its architecture doesn’t sit well with a lot of people.
The other question is Wait, can I use compiz? The answer there is a theoretical yes, although no one has actually gotten it to work. We love compiz and we think it’s great stuff and is well polished, but it’s often confused with the underlying architecture of XGL. Much like the code that we’ve added to metacity, compiz is a composite manager. With a bit of work, it should be possible to get compiz working on this X server. There’s an
