Researchers and scientists appear up in arms this week over the state of Indirect GLX (IGLX) in the X.Org Server and the potential they’d lose the remote OpenGL rendering support they’ve been accustomed to using for seeing visualizations from clusters / super-computers on their workstations.
IGLX isn’t being killed off at this time, but rather it was disabled by default and that news is now reaching users… Adam Jackson has since sought to clear up the confusion over the IGLX support still being found in the xorg-server just that it needs to be manually enabled (via +iglx).
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