What do you think of this of this linux vid.? http://www.videovat.com/videos/2419/linux-dual-screen-xgl.aspx
just 1 word. WOW. Look @ those animations(moves) and capability of ...damn i started to forget english. Capability of desktop. ı think many forum members must see this
Not bad.....reminds me of the work they are doing for Looking Glass. Some of the ideas those programmers have for the Linux environment are far beyond anything I've heard of MS coming up with.....even in the distant future.
It looks like it might make a big resource hog to do all of those fancy trasitions and whatnot. I could be wrong, but I would just assume that based on all it was doing.
Its funny though, Linux start to put these things in, yet have people seen Expose and some of the User Switching in OS X? They do some really funky animations, and you don't even need a grunty machine to do it, not to mention all the transparencies. Amazing what you can do with a OS that's an entirely Postscript OS built on Unix.
nope people are running it on geforce 3's fine, on really low end machines. btw that video sucks compared to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawkc3jH3ws&eurl finch is right tho, noone made much of a fuss over expose and all the features in osx. But thats coz your restricted to using a mac... thats the difference.
amd64 machines can run OSX just fine, i ran it on my machine last year for awhile. i love OSX but the support just simply isnt there for my games
As opposed to being restricted to Linux? That's all very pretty and all, but OS X takes a cool animation, but doesn't drag it out, makes it fast, and quick, so it doesn't get in the way of work. I mean XGL is pretty cool, but I don't think it helps workflow in any way.
you only have the fancy effects if your using ati. No quartz/quartz extreme on nvidia hardware just yet. anyway it's not legal to run osx86. Regarding usefullness, I disagree.. clearly expose is very usefull, so is live alt-tabbing. I think the cube is kinda geeky which is where alot of critism seems to stem from, but you can change it to a sliding transition now. Using quinn's current compiz packages you can customise and streamline compiz to your liking. For instance I disable the "wobbly" plugin because it can be annoying to use.. which keeps xgl/compiz quite bare, subtle and highly usable. The point i'm trying to make is that with linux generally you can customize/make choices you can't otherwise make in other operating systems which is really ideal for a fairly adept user, but perhaps not great for a novice where too many options/considerations can be overwhelming. This is certainly one of the reasons xgl/compiz is considered alpha/pre-release software. Novell's SLED will be out very soon, I think then we can have a valid debate over xgl/compiz. p.s for a healthly compiz discussion, head over to www.compiz.net
