Hi all, About a year ago, Lawrence showed me Beryl (the Window manager with cool eye-candy accelerated graphics stuff). It was very, very impressive.
I recently had cause to reinstall my [c|t]rusty old laptop (1GHz / 384Mb / 10 Gb). I was toying with the idea of a solid-state system using PuppyLinux, but thought I'd experiment with PCLinuxOS first. I downloaded the latest PCLinuxOS which boots up as a Live CD distro with an option for HD install. It comes with Beryl as an option. I started up Beryl not expecting anything much but was amazed at what it could do with the very basic graphics card (i830). Certainly not all the effects are supported - but a surprising number of them are - in fact my only grumble was that they mostly went so fast that, if you blinked, you missed them. So if you want to impress people (or just want something a bit more funky on your desktop) you don't have to have the very latest in 3D hardware to get some very impressive results. Merry Xmas everybody, Colin McKinnon _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
