[KLUG Members] Groklaw - Novell Contributes Xgl and the Community Offers Kororaa LiveCD

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Has anyone been keeping up with Novell's contribution to the XGL project? 

Yes; cool!  The window tile-ing actually looks useful.

What personally stikes me as more important [then some frilly 3d stuff]
is http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/

"One application that got a lot of attention is GNOME Terminal which can
now display the entire contents of the dictionary on the screen
literally in a second, or in under 2 seconds using antialiased fonts
(using antialiased fonts it took xterm 1m 13s to do the same!)."

Wow!  A huge performance improvement is in the pipeline,  which I think
will have a much larger effect on actual usability.  For instance I have
GNOME running on some older boxes like low-clock PIIIs and dual Pentium
Pros and performance is actually pretty good - except for rendering all
the stuff expected in a modern UI (you can watch the text paint, because
painting anti-aliased fonts is really compute intensive).

Not to mention [Sabayon - http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/]
*FINALLY* a friggin' administrative app.  There is something that just
took *WAY* too long.