Say hello to 3D
The 3D-Desktop has been a hot topic since Novell showed-off their XGL/Compiz integration for NLD 10 at a Solutions Linux conference in January this year. Useless for some, simply cool for others. In any case, there’s a “Wow” factor that’s just good for Linux on the desktop: your neighbours during train or plane trips always ask “what’s with the cube”? “Oh, this is a Linux desktop”, you answer. And that’s when you’ll give her the speech.
So Blino baked a recipe, put it all in Cooker and made a video of Mandriva Linux 2007 running sexy Compiz effects (powered by XGL in this case). Check it out:
Mandriva Linux 2007 3D Desktop
Uploaded by mandriva
Apart from those addictive effects (try using a 3D-Desktop for a few days then go back to a plain old desktop to understand “addictive effects”) and the “Wow factor”, many say there’s not much to the 3D-Desktop on Linux yet. Major Linux distributions, and some smaller ones, have just integrated these technologies. This was the first step.
When you’re done showing-off your cool Mandriva Linux 2007 and evangelizing the great things we can achieve through Free and Open Source Software, go make some great 3D-ready applications!
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:25 pm
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August 23rd, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Nice to see XGL in Mandriva but please get rid
of the ugly theme and make it more clean like Ubunutu or
Suse.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Any instructions on how to get it to work with current cooker?
August 24th, 2006 at 8:38 am
[...] Mandriva 2007 dispondrá de soporte 3D mediante el uso de Xgl y/ó AIGLX. El usuario podrá elegir entre uno y otro siempre y cuando el controlador de su tarjeta gráfica lo permita. La aceleración gráfica estará disponible tanto para KDE como para GNOME. Enviado por Ordo 24/8/2006 7:37 am | | | Mandrake [...]
August 24th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
@Bas : It’s the 2006 theme you’re seeing there.
@mango: Sure, take a look at this http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/AcceleratedDesktop
August 24th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Is there a non-Flash site available to see screen shots?
August 26th, 2006 at 6:42 am
Dreamlinux XGL Edition already features this Compiz Window MANAGER:
http://www.dreamlinux.com.br/english/saiba-xgl.html
August 26th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Sure, Bas is right!
Get us more beautiful theme by default, and you get more users!
I spent fir 1 year with Mandrake - Mandrive, then i saw Opensuse default theme &…
Install Opensuse in all LAN computers…
Sure, I would install Mandriva, if it’ll be more beautiful by default!
August 27th, 2006 at 3:44 am
[...] 首先，是今年 1 月 Solutions Linux 上 Novell çš„å?–弄，然å?Žæ˜¯å°?巨人 Ubuntu 的推波助澜，还有往 Fedora å’Œ Vista 身上的贴金或者扣屎，这下å?，是 Mandriva Say hello。 [...]
August 29th, 2006 at 4:24 am
bueno, como mandrake user no tuvew mucho exito desde que la conoci en 1999 siempre a tenido un problema con el pointer o raton como lo quieran llamar se pone muy inestable y por el volor del box y despues elvalor de mandrriva club es la distro mas cara y inestable que he visto aunque el pinter volviendose loco tambien lo he visto en otras distros, espero que alla mejorado y que alguna vez laparte de soporte funcione cuando se pregunta sobre alguna falla esta y fedora nunca he podido hacer funcionar mi extigy, y en otras como kubunto funciona a la maravillas y lindows tambien como dije por el precio no lo vale espero que cambie cuando salga le voy a dar un vistazo
August 29th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
[...] What I miss in the latest Mandriva is - by no doubt - the search integration. After what we’ve seen in Ubuntu 6.06 and openSUSE 10.1, this should be a standard in all modern distros. In Mandriva, you cannot find any of those quick-search panels displaying the desktop and web search results delivered by Beagle and other search engines. The fancy-desktop lovers are in a better situation, though. There is an quite easy way to add AIGLX or XGL+Compiz support. You can either do it graphically or use a config file for that. [...]
September 2nd, 2006 at 1:43 pm
[...] It’s time to embrace 3-dimensional Mandriva Linux. Tyr delivers a ONE CD with 3D Desktops enabled: [...]
September 17th, 2006 at 10:02 am
well ok, nice the 3D, but what about make available some decent , realy, fonts ?
something comparable to apple or windows, something that doesn’t look ugly and that can improve visibility, please…
September 19th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Have a look at Mac OS X with aqua quartz etc.
Strange i have seen this face before…?
So now you have a 3d desktop what about the linux geeks that are crying about not to use a graphic desktop because of the so called performance and stability issue…? They say that linux in fact is not powerfull enough to have a graphic desktop. So MS Windows remains in place for very long long time.
What a world.
November 7th, 2007 at 11:43 am
[...] wir uns mit der 3D Technologie einem neuen Trend der Desktopverwaltung. Nachdem Linux mit seiner Würfeltechnologie und Apple mit seinem CoverFlow schon Anfänge gemacht haben, steht jetzt ein neues interessantes [...]