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  1. May 10th, 2008, 04:22 AM #1
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    Cool demo of Linux XGL desktop makes Vista look like crap...

     
    Wait until the cube multimonitor thing comes up - VERY cool. Stretches your desktop across the surface of a cube.

    http://youtube.com/v/Cz_2vKq5cZk
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  2. May 10th, 2008, 06:34 AM #2
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    Nothing new...

    Actually, I have used Tab Effect for Firefox.
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    This must use ALOT OF RESOURCES i would think!! (The linux thing)
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  4. May 19th, 2008, 12:13 PM #4
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    The whole thing looks like Compiz-Fusion running on KDE4, so some effects are from KDE4, some from Compiz.
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    XGL is a X Server capable of providing OpenGL hardware acceleration (if available) for X, OpenGL 3D, multimedia video, and intermediate desktop compositing engines like Compiz.

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    Nothing new...

    Actually, I have used Tab Effect for Firefox.
    You just compared a little software interface hack to a complex 3D desktop compositing window management system.

    Compositing window manager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    It looked the same...

    I have used that type of GUI before in live CDs.
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