Glut (as in ``gluttony'') is a window system independent toolkit for writing opengl programs. it implements a simple windowing api, which makes life considerably easier when learning about and exploring opengl programming.

glut is designed for constructing small to medium sized opengl programs, however it is not a full-featured toolkit, so large applications requiring sophisticated user interfaces are better off using native window system toolkits like gtk or motif.

this package has been replaced by ``freeglut3''.