Vista Killer !!!

Wow that is awesome. Does anyone have this Linux Distro with all that? Just curious for anyone who has it, does it come like that? Or are those features other software you need to use?
 
yeah i don't see anything new, thats sabayon (italian based distro,,lol)
I've used it numerous times but its not that stable.
if you really want cubes try Fedora core 6
 
That's great! I've noticed that all that fancy graphics stuff gets in my way. I would much rather stick to a regular ubuntu UI than add something like that to it. Sure, some things would be neat, but even Vista is too much. If people/gamers are looking for graphics, that would probaly be the best. Isn't Ubuntu about to put Beryl into the normal distro? Or is that ubuntu studio... ?
 
That looks cool, but I doubt my computer could support it. It's amazing how far Linux has come though. It seems that, as Linux gets older and better, Microsoft starts going down-hill.

Why couldn't they have just stuck with XP until something GOOD came out eh?
 
Linux has beautiful 3d elements and visuals but when i comes to serious work, linux runs away.I'm not boycotting or anything as i use suse but there's a lot of work any linux os needs to do in the software department
 
I'm not very framiliar with Linux because I use Windows XP, so I'm not sure, but have they gotten anywhere with emulating Windows programs at all?

If they have, then I would switch over to Linux completely.
 
I've been using Beryl (http://www.beryl-project.org/features.php) for ages, first with Ubuntu and now openSUSE.

http://www.beryl-project.org/distros.php

To get a usable desktop you do really need to turn a lot of the features off, but it is still worth having. If you want to impress your friends or show off what Linux can do, then you're spoilt for choice.

Surprisingly you don't need much of a system to run it either:

What are the system requirements for Beryl?
Beryl runs acceptably well on a GeForce 3/i855/Radeon 7500, 256MB of RAM, and a 1.2GHz processor. It also works best with Xorg 7.1 and requires a recent version of Mesa.
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I don't think emulating Windows software is much of a priority, in most cases there is alternate software available, however WINE (http://www.winehq.com) is always under development.

Whether Linux is a viable alternative to you depends upon what you use your OS for. I've had Linux as my only OS for nearly 1 1/2 years.
 
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xp is the 'vista killer'

i've tried installing xgl on a number of systems, and it's hit or miss

unless you've got an nvidia 7 series, you've got about a 2% chance of getting it working

windows obviously has the downfall of actually being COMPATIBLE with tons of legacy hardware, hence the bloating. If linux actually worked with everyone's system, it would be just as bloated and slow as vista.
 
heyman421 said:
xp is the 'vista killer'

i've tried installing xgl on a number of systems, and it's hit or miss

unless you've got an nvidia 7 series, you've got about a 2% chance of getting it working

windows obviously has the downfall of actually being COMPATIBLE with tons of legacy hardware, hence the bloating. If linux actually worked with everyone's system, it would be just as bloated and slow as vista.
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Not everyone needs XGL to run Beryl or Compiz, but I agree XGL is a pain to install.
 
Thats sweet , what is it ? new themes (skin) that dose that because mine dosent do that. well thats kool .
 
Nevakonaza said:
that looks great..i bet the system requirements ar high though?
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I posted them earlier in the thread but here you go anyway:

What are the system requirements for Beryl?
Beryl runs acceptably well on a GeForce 3/i855/Radeon 7500, 256MB of RAM, and a 1.2GHz processor. It also works best with Xorg 7.1 and requires a recent version of Mesa.
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CCPS said:
Thats sweet , what is it ? new themes (skin) that dose that because mine dosent do that. well thats kool .
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http://www.beryl-project.org/

What is the Beryl Project?

Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and respond to the requests of the user base.

Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do. With Beryl the rather esoteric concept of the computer desktop is brought down to a more human level, allowing for a more native and intuitive understanding of your workspace. To learn more about Beryl and its features visit our Feature Spotlight.

Beryl is a fork of the Compiz project, started by David Reveman of Novell. We continue to port new changes from compiz, and consider them essentially our upstream. Beryl could not have existed were it not for the heavy lifting done both server side by David and in creating compiz, which is the base on which all of our code is built, and which still comprises a large portion of our code, though this is likely to change as the 0.3.0/0.4.0 release cycle gets started.
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Wow! I've never seen anything like that before. It's really cool! I'd like to try that sometime.
 
FYI

Don't try running beryl on an ATI card it is a HUGE pain in the ass and it won't run for me. Use the linux nvidia driver (native) and xgl and it should work a lot nicer.
 
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