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Airencracken
05-27-2006, 08:56 PM
http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/

Running it in SuSE 10.1 right now. OMFG it is so much more attractive than Mac OS X. It's really rockin' my socks;. I'll post some screen shots later.
Airencracken
05-29-2006, 09:49 PM
can't seem to get any screenshots of the desktop cube but here are some of the water effect

725kb! http://www.raymondkwan.com/uploader2/files/airen/Screenshot2.png

745kb! http://www.raymondkwan.com/uploader2/files/airen/Screenshot-1.png
redcolours
05-29-2006, 10:11 PM
wow, that organization demo is real nifty! does OSX have that already? or will vista have that function?
either way, i like it!
Airencracken
05-30-2006, 07:51 AM
Yeah OSX has the organization thingy, but no desktop cube. (so useful)

http://www.raymondkwan.com/uploader2/files/airen/deskcube3.png
Airencracken
05-30-2006, 08:35 AM
http://www.raymondkwan.com/uploader2/files/airenc/deskcube.jpg
InfiniteNothing
05-30-2006, 08:42 AM
It has a cube transition effect but it's for switching between users. I think the F10 organize key is about as good of a feature for expanding your desktop. Less mouse motion involved.
SnowSurfer
05-30-2006, 08:45 AM
there is an xgl live cd floating around if u want to see it for yourself...

link...

http://kororaa.org/static.php?page=static060318-181203
Airencracken
05-30-2006, 09:04 AM
It has a cube transition effect but it's for switching between users. I think the F10 organize key is about as good of a feature for expanding your desktop. Less mouse motion involved.

Yeah the desktop organization on linux is about the same as the OSX one, but I really dig the virtual desktops, makes organizing work a lot easier.
Hoser
05-30-2006, 08:57 PM
Airencracken, what are the specs on the computer (processor, memory, video card) that is running SuSE 10.1? I have an AMD XP 2800 with 1GB of memory. The video card in it now (Radeon 8500) can't run XGL I have a P4 2.8GHZ also with 1GB of memory and a Radeon 9800 Pro. I may try and see if this will run it better.
hapoo
05-30-2006, 09:04 PM
I tried running it on my laptop (PM 1.73ghz, 1GB, mobility radeon x300) and it really crawls unless my resolution is at VGA.
Airencracken
05-30-2006, 09:34 PM
Airencracken, what are the specs on the computer (processor, memory, video card) that is running SuSE 10.1? I have an AMD XP 2800 with 1GB of memory. The video card in it now (Radeon 8500) can't run XGL I have a P4 2.8GHZ also with 1GB of memory and a Radeon 9800 Pro. I may try and see if this will run it better.

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 1808MHz
Display Card NVIDIA GeForce 6150
Memory 2048MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Free Disk Space 68.76GB
Display Card Memory 256MB
Display Driver Version 8.4.2.1
DirectX Version 9.0c
Optical Drive CD/DVD
Sound Card SoundMAX HD Audio O

XGL <3's Nvidia and AMD. Well, so does all of open source actually. Not to mention that the verison of SuSE that I'm running is natively 64-bit.
zero2dash
05-31-2006, 07:31 AM
Ok...(I feel stupid for asking this)
What's the cube good for?
Is it supposed to be like a "more flashy" version of Expos&#233;?
InfiniteNothing
05-31-2006, 09:40 AM
Kinda. It's just extra screen/desktop space.
Airencracken
05-31-2006, 04:33 PM
Yeah, it's virtual desktops.