Peter Machell wrote:
I've been playing with Beryl today - a 3D accelerated window manager
for Linux.
Now it's prettier than Windows too, and the prettiness is completely
customisable. I'm not interested in all the fancy transitions and
stuff but I'm excited that I can now have Mac Expose like
functionality on Linux.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3KTzijxt28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSw8Yfg0tpM&NR
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSw8Yfg0tpM&NR>
If Apple doesn't release a small notebook soon I just might go back to
Linux on the desktop.
I've had Beryl on my laptop since January. It's the sort of eye candy
that end luser's love. It's been mostly stable on the Intel graphics
chip although I have not been able to get the water effects going.
However, it is not going to be part of next month's Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
release due to instability issues. In this it reminds me of Medical
Director. It crashes several times a session but it crashes nicely, in
this case back to metacity under Gnome.
Feisty will also have the kvm module (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki)
included by default in the 2.6.20 kernel. This will make it easier, on
newer hardware, to run one or more virtual machines. While
virtualisation has been possible for *nix guest operating systems for
some time, this release will let you run Windows in a virtutalised
environment. The penalty hit for doing this is only a few percent which
is quite acceptable. Throw in enough RAM and it may even boot Vista.
David
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