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
). We handle Intel, Nvidia and ATI chipsets through both proprietary and Free drivers. It works on both KDE and GNOME desktop environments.
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!
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Nice to see XGL in Mandriva but please get rid
of the ugly theme and make it more clean like Ubunutu or
Suse.
Any instructions on how to get it to work with current cooker?
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@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
Is there a non-Flash site available to see screen shots?
Dreamlinux XGL Edition already features this Compiz Window MANAGER:
http://www.dreamlinux.com.br/english/saiba-xgl.html
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!
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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
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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…
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.
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