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

[Alexander Kurtz]

This is the complete mail I wrote to Josselin Mouette on 2009-04-21.
It contains more general information and some links.

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Hello,

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.

Let me summarize why VirtualGL is great:

I installed some debs[2], edited three config files and rebooted my
thin-client - et voila - I was playing OpenArena on my thin client!

If you have got further questions (for example concerning the config
files I changed) just mail me: <kurtz.alex at googlemail.com>

An upstream author should be reachable at
<dcommander at users.sourceforge.net>

Best regards and many thanks for making Debian such a great OS!

Alexander Kurtz

[1] http://virtualgl.org/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualgl/
[3] http://ltsp.org/
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