From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 16 23: 1:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954AA10F36 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:01:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) id AAA67247; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:01:21 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199902170701.AAA67247@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: You Got To Love the New Kind of Spam 8) In-Reply-To: <199902170616.WAA49888@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Feb 16, 1999 10:16:59 pm" To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:01:21 -0700 (MST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Amancio Hasty wrote... > > SGI is releasing GLX 8) > > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990216/ca_silicon_2.html > > Have Fun, > Amancio > > P.S.: If companies start dumping large packages is going to weight us down :( Heh. That's pretty cool. Although I wouldn't say that GLX itself is exactly huge. What they've released is basically the X server side connecting glue that allows connecting up OpenGL to an X server. Here's a snippet from the readme: ===== GLX is used to connect an X server and an OpenGL implementation. By itself, the GLX distribution is incomplete. XFree86 (or other code based on the X11R6 release) provides the X server. ===== They aren't releasing, however, their OpenGL implementation. Here's what they said about that: ===== Please do not deluge SGI with requests to make our SI available as open source. We are fully aware of the issues involved. ===== Apparantly Red Hat and some other company (Precision Insight) are working on getting Mesa to work with GLX. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message