[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Wish: Getting VirtualGL into Debian

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 21 avril 2009 à 20:08 +0200, Alexander Kurtz a écrit :
> have you seen this amazing piece of software: VirtalGL[1][2]
> In short, it is a library which is pre-loaded into applications, catches
> all OpenGL calls, renders them on the local graphics board and sends
> them jpeg-compressed to a (thin) client. It works almost perfect and the
> best thing: It is free software!
> 
> Why I am writing this message: I have used VirtualGL for some time now
> to bring OpenGL-apps to my LTSP-Thin-Clients. Since LTSP is already in
> Debian, it would be great if VirtualGL was too! The VirtualGL authors
> have already released .deb-packages, so I guess integrating it into
> Debian shouldn't be too hard.

This looks very promising. Especially since GNOME 3 will make OpenGL
mandatory, and that would be a problem for thin clients.

I’m not interested in maintaining OpenGL stuff myself, but I think you
should discuss with the LTSP maintainers if you want to help with
maintaining this package in Debian; I’m CCing them.

Cheers,
-- 
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