From: "Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org" thebs413@earthlink.net
Hell, atop of all that, one thing that was a pleasant surprise is Sun Looking Glass. Once I hit the API, I realized how forward-thinking Sun is. E.g., even input is treated as a 3D via the "picker." Talk about realizing that we really need to end the days of 2D buffers upon buffers, independent, unintegrated layers upon layers, the sooner every system is GLX, the better. And best of all, Looking Glass it's GPL -- not any MPL-like license or even MIT advertising.
Just as a clarification, while I often refer to accelerated OpenGL (via libGL) and OpenGL over X11 (GLX) interchangably, I do mean the former in most cases -- where the latter is typically inherited for free.
I should make that distinction, because Looking Glass is not a GLX environment. It is a completely different, but GPL Freedomware (Open Source, Open Standard) environment with X11, GLX, etc... compatibility layers.
-- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org