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wojox
July 22nd, 2010, 02:00 PM
This thing is awesome.

3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9FgLr9oTk)

Excedio
July 22nd, 2010, 02:07 PM
Two things:

Pretty cool stuff. Wonder how this look on a 2010 version of Gentoo. (Video is 2006)

Best part is when he swipes to the right and takes out his microphone. ;-)

98cwitr
July 22nd, 2010, 02:10 PM
rofflecopter @ him hitting the mic

a few glitches, but hell that was 4 YEARS AGO

realzippy
July 22nd, 2010, 02:25 PM
...boring.

viralmeme
July 22nd, 2010, 02:29 PM
This thing is awesome

Does Dell (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/windows_or_ubuntu?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs) know about this ?

Excedio
July 22nd, 2010, 02:31 PM
Does Dell (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/windows_or_ubuntu?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs) know about this ?


Choose WINDOWS if:

You are already using WINDOWS programs (e.g. Microsoft Office, ITunes etc) and want to continue using them
You are familiar with WINDOWS and do not want to learn new programs for email, word processing etc
You are new to using computers
......hmmmmmm

Trinexx
July 22nd, 2010, 03:40 PM
I remember watching this video a couple years ago, then spending days trying to create something similar. Couldn't figure out how to give windows "momentum" like he does in the video.

Pogeymanz
July 22nd, 2010, 04:08 PM
I remember watching this video a couple years ago, then spending days trying to create something similar. Couldn't figure out how to give windows "momentum" like he does in the video.

There is an experimental plugin called "Throw," I believe. It may be on smspillaz's blog.

cabbagepants
July 22nd, 2010, 04:11 PM
Was'nt this the video that proved the open community released an idea before Apple put in the patents?

FuturePilot
July 22nd, 2010, 04:16 PM
XGL? This is ancient.

Trinexx
July 22nd, 2010, 04:19 PM
There is an experimental plugin called "Throw," I believe. It may be on smspillaz's blog.
Thanks! Nice to finally have some closure on this.

Link, for those who are interested;
http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/compiz-stuff/

aeiah
July 22nd, 2010, 04:42 PM
Does Dell (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/windows_or_ubuntu?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs) know about this ?

i like how the windows screenshot is the decade old super-familiar windows xp, yet the ubuntu one is some random shiny UNR thing and nothing like the standard desktop

renkinjutsu
July 22nd, 2010, 05:08 PM
I'm looking at the specs for that machine... That is truly impressive.. I may want to try my hand at Gentoo once i get a big enough external harddrive to backup, or if i can get some sort of free computer

Pogeymanz
July 22nd, 2010, 05:34 PM
I'm looking at the specs for that machine... That is truly impressive.. I may want to try my hand at Gentoo once i get a big enough external harddrive to backup, or if i can get some sort of free computer

You really don't need to use Gentoo to do that. It's just Compiz and a touch-screen device. You just need a touch-screen and a Linux driver for it.

renkinjutsu
July 22nd, 2010, 05:49 PM
You really don't need to use Gentoo to do that. It's just Compiz and a touch-screen device. You just need a touch-screen and a Linux driver for it.

Specs here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQkSObRtw0o


PC: p4, 1.8mhz, 256mb, 40gb(hd).
Monitor: waytec 15''.
Video: Nvidia 64mb.

On my "as minimal as i can"-install, I use up 90Mb when booted into GUI

minimal meaning:
one xfce4-panel: menu, weather, clock
feh: to set the background for X, it runs once and doesn't run in background, so this doesn't count
PekWM as my window manager
Custom compiled kernel to get rid of tons of stuff that increases the image size.

And my system still uses swap heavily while browsing the web (512Mb RAM).

Just thinking about trying out a lighter distro. I was just impressed he can do all that, given the specs of his machine

wojox
July 23rd, 2010, 12:22 AM
My bad. I missed the 2006 and just saw the user comments from one month ago.

I was mainly impressed with the fact they had a touchscreen driver for Linux. ;)

Pogeymanz
July 23rd, 2010, 07:49 PM
Specs here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQkSObRtw0o



On my "as minimal as i can"-install, I use up 90Mb when booted into GUI

minimal meaning:
one xfce4-panel: menu, weather, clock
feh: to set the background for X, it runs once and doesn't run in background, so this doesn't count
PekWM as my window manager
Custom compiled kernel to get rid of tons of stuff that increases the image size.

And my system still uses swap heavily while browsing the web (512Mb RAM).

Just thinking about trying out a lighter distro. I was just impressed he can do all that, given the specs of his machine

But, this is four years ago. Software tends to fatten over time. If you were to run the exact version of the same software he was running, I bet it would use less memory.

Also, Compiz doesn't use THAT much memory. In fact, Gnome is fairly lightweight when it's not being run in Ubuntu. Ubuntu has bastardized Gnome into a fatty.

On my machine, I use about 115MB RAM with my Openbox session and about 160MB RAM with my Compiz session. Since I have 1GB of RAM, we are talking about a difference of 3.5%.