Fedora 18 Update: VirtualGL-2.3.2-3.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-2174
2013-02-09 10:44:29
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Name        : VirtualGL
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.3.2
Release     : 3.fc18
URL         : http://www.virtualgl.org/
Summary     : A toolkit for displaying OpenGL applications to thin clients
Description :
VirtualGL is a toolkit that allows most Unix/Linux OpenGL applications to be
remotely displayed with hardware 3D acceleration to thin clients, regardless
of whether the clients have 3D capabilities, and regardless of the size of the
3D data being rendered or the speed of the network.

Using the vglrun script, the VirtualGL "faker" is loaded into an OpenGL
application at run time.  The faker then intercepts a handful of GLX calls,
which it reroutes to the server's X display (the "3D X Server", which
presumably has a 3D accelerator attached.)  The GLX commands are also
dynamically modified such that all rendering is redirected into a Pbuffer
instead of a window.  As each frame is rendered by the application, the faker
reads back the pixels from the 3D accelerator and sends them to the
"2D X Server" for compositing into the appropriate X Window.

VirtualGL can be used to give hardware-accelerated 3D capabilities to VNC or
other X proxies that either lack OpenGL support or provide it through software
rendering.  In a LAN environment, VGL can also be used with its built-in
high-performance image transport, which sends the rendered 3D images to a
remote client (vglclient) for compositing on a remote X server.  VirtualGL
also supports image transport plugins, allowing the rendered 3D images to be
sent or captured using other mechanisms.

VirtualGL is based upon ideas presented in various academic papers on
this topic, including "A Generic Solution for Hardware-Accelerated Remote
Visualization" (Stegmaier, Magallon, Ertl 2002) and "A Framework for
Interactive Hardware Accelerated Remote 3D-Visualization" (Engel, Sommer,
Ertl 2000.)

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Update Information:

Update to 1.2.90 release. Main enhancement is:

* libjpeg.so now contains jpeg_mem_src() and jpeg_mem_dest() functions which are needed by
some applications.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 20 2013 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> - 2.3.2-3
- rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #854695 - Backport jpeg_mem_{src,dest} functions
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854695
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update VirtualGL' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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