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Sun to GPL Project Looking Glass

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the java-eye-candy dept.

elleomea writes "According to The Register, Sun is releasing Project Looking Glass, their new GNU/Linux based 3D window managing system, under the GPL during their JavaOne conference (beginning today)." The screenshots of Looking Glass make it out to be very pretty. I'm not sure if I have the spare CPU cycles to power such an environment, but it's sure nice to drool over.

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  2. Re:When I see it by scrod98 · · Score: 4, Informative
    File JAVA and its promise of platform independance away with all those AT&T commercials from the mid 90's that promised you would soon be able to check out and read entire books via the internet, make video phone calls, and perform remote heart surgery with their new technology.

    check out and read entire books via the internet

    make video phone calls

    perform remote heart surgery

    Uh, done

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    LETS DECOMPOSE & ENJOY ASSEMBLING