Xgl-Kubuntu-Ubuntu or SuSE -- Is it possible?

[vayu]

On May 15, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Robert Tilley wrote:

> On Monday 15 May 2006 15:58, Lord Sauron wrote:
> <SNIP>
>> Xgl is developed by Novell on SuSE and OpenSuSE.  Debian-based  
>> support
>> is almost non-existant.  To compound this problem, my fellow KDE
>> devotee, Xgl is developed by Gnome people.  It's tested  
>> (primarily) on
>> Gnome, and KDE support isn't yet really tested all that much.  If
>> you'd like to help improve Xgl, once you get it working, send the Xgl
>> project bug reports!  Help them beat M$ to having a fully 3D desktop!
>> (Windows Vista, due sometime in 2007, is redoing things such that
>> everything is rendered in Direct3D instead of GDI+).
>>
>>> Anyway, just try it out :)
>>
>> Please, do so!  Remember, good, educated bug reports are the best!
>> Only send one if you can repeat a problem.  Whatever.  I could go on
>> for pages about good bug report practices.  There's a 100% chance
>> there's a similar treatise online somewhere, so I'll shut up about
>> now.
>
> Given the above, let me restate the problem.  I would like to  
> install Xgl on
> Linux on my Dell Dimension 2350.  I would like to stay with
> Debian/Kubuntu/Ubuntu.  Can Ubuntu support Xgl?  Do I need to  
> switch to SuSE
> or OpenSuSE?  I can sacrifice some KDE-goodness for the overly- 
> sufficient
> eye-candy of Xgl and compiz.
>
> Thanks, Bob


People are having success with Gnome based Ubuntu and I've seen  
reports of people doing well with Kubuntu.  I think the above is  
saying it's better with Gnome over KDE, not that it's problematic  
with Ubuntu.



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