The 3D cube desktop is an Open GL desktop manager called Beryl. It can run on pretty much any major distro, but be forewarned. It does not run out of the box in my experience, and will require some tweakage. Beryl does not run on my Suse 10.2 rig at the moment out of the box. Two services fail for some unknown reason, even after I followed the wiki instructions to the T...
That is the downside to linux, there are many compatibility problems among distros...so don't worry if you get frusturated it is only normal. I would suggest downloading Live CDs of these distros and try them out then choose one you like. You can make a partition with the Linux installer and do all that custom stuff during the install process and even set up dual boot.
Distros:
Open SuSe
Fedora Core
Debian
Ubuntu
Freespire
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