Novell Pumps Up Linux Interface
Novell Inc. recently unveiled updates to the Linux graphics subsystem that are aimed at making it a more attractive operating system for desktop users.
The improvements to X over OpenGL (Xgl), the graphics technology that underlies Linux, will render images faster and improve 3D graphics and video for users running Linux-based desktops, said Charlie Mancusi-Ungaro, Novell's director of marketing for Linux and open source.
The new capabilities, already available in source code, arrive before Microsoft Corp.'s much-ballyhooed Aero graphical user interface in the upcoming Vista operating system.
The updated rendering technology will be offered as an option for Version 10 of Novell's Linux Desktop software, which is due out this summer, Mancusi-Ungaro said.
