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Re: [News] Video: "World's Best Desktop" (Linux)

__/ [ [H]omer ] on Sunday 14 January 2007 11:25 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Worlds best desktop
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | A preview of the worlds best desktop
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSw8Yfg0tpM
>>
>> Beats the hell out of Leopard eye candy.
> 
>> Shows use of the Z axis in window placement.
> 
> ^^^ That one's new. ^^^


Yeah.. been out for a while. It's not too pleasant on the eye (this KDE
setting isn't either), but it just bundles a bunch of the recent
developments, made within just month (the Beryl-Compiz fork is new but
already cutting-edge). Anything 3-D can be done easily, by a community,
using an API's. It's not a case of half a dozen code monkeys in Redmond
sitting in a cubicle-rich room working on 'flip mode' for 5 years. Open code
brings together open minds, it helps squish the bugs quickly and it makes
the cubicle residents rather nervous and embarrassed (shyness). It probably
leads Apple devs to blushing as well. Have a look at KDE 2 (circa 2002).
It's like Linux catches up and compensates for all the missing time that's
due to the dark age of software (think IE6 versus Firefox 1.5 and Opera 8).


>> Beryl 3D Window Layer Plugin
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpIhoLzDOTY
> 
> Ah, I hadn't heard of that one.
> 
> Beryl development is moving at a frightening pace. Vista is not even
> out (to consumers) yet, and Linux has already surpassed it's Gooey
> capabilities ... by an order of magnitude ... and without needing to
> remortgage your home to buy new hardware either!


This can run gracefully with 32MB graphics card and a CPU that's 5+ years
old. This, as a matter of fact, is what makes hardware manufacturers, as
opposed to Microsoft and Apple, nervous. They just can't 'break' the old
products and force sales of new ones. Less waste, less money being spent,
smaller gap between those economically-deprived and those who believe that
we need to 'push the economy' by dumping old hardware to rot in Africa while
the far east labours 80 hours a week making PlayStations at a mad pace (and
devouring oil at a pace that only Bush's regime in Iraq can sustain).

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