From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F7zJt-0002xr-Hu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:18:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1BIGWv0014596; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:16:32 GMT Received: from smtp17.wxs.nl (smtp17.wxs.nl [195.121.247.8]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1BIBQbU019891 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:11:26 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp17.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IUJ00MSHBV1WZ@smtp17.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:11:25 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:11:07 +0100 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL X desktop In-reply-to: <000101c62eaf$c44e7b30$620aa8c0@locutus> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <43EE28BB.2040609@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060206) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <000101c62eaf$c44e7b30$620aa8c0@locutus> X-Archives-Salt: ddb06f3a-91f4-4149-bb62-a58380b33be2 X-Archives-Hash: 018908075e209d17aad01a168edc105e Daevid Vincent schreef: > Whoa. Check out this demo of a new OpenGL X desktop. IMHO it blows away the > Mac OS/X > > http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi > > Anyone have any other info on when this will be available? How does it work? > > It looks like they're just using Gnome. Will it work with KDE too? > > I want it now! > Oh. My. God. .... (thanks for the heads-up, Daevid, certainly that video was worth seeing!) More questions... what kind of a rig is that (will it run on my fairly ordinary box? Will it run with the *&%%^ ati drivers?)? Oh. My. .... Heck, I'd run GNOME again if that was the only way to get that, I don't bloody care. I like GNOME anyway. *Finally*, eye-candy worthy of the name!!! Oh, how many people could I begin converting to Linux if they saw my desktop doing *that*...?!!? Bite me, Vista!!! Holly, off to the forums to read the giant thread. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list