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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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  1. Sun's irrelevant now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Their last round of layoffs, their insecurities with regards to Linux. Had they spent all those resources making decent products instead of fighting Microsoft, people would still have a reason to buy Sun products.

    Do you remember how well engineered their workstations used to be? Their new low end stuff sucks ass. Sparc doesn't cut it anymore, either, and now that commodity 64bit desktops are possible, say bye bye to the CAE/CAD people too.

    Murk

  2. Re:When I see it by kryonD · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

    I will give them this though, they did manage to corner the handheld/cell phone market with JAVA. But then again, A JAVA app written for i-Mode phones won't work on a Blackberry, so I guess they fscked that one up too.

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  3. well by ptrangerv8 · · Score: 0, Troll

    (I've already been modded Troll today, so call this redundant)

    What's the point of make a '3-d' desktop environment, when it's displayed on a 2-d monitor?

    Untill we get some type of projected display, or headsey unit, or what have you, it's NOT 3-D... it's 2-d displayed to 'look 3-d'...

    Watch TV sometime, you'll see how hard it is to TRULY display 3-d (and, no Tv's aren't 3-d either)

    Besides, if it were truly 3-d desktop/filemanager environment, how am I going to be able to move my mouse in the 3rd dimension?

    using a space orb? http://www.makeitsimple.com/reviews/space_orb/

    sheesh....

  4. New SUN mantra? by bl8n8r · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sun: Overpowered applications for underpowered hardware.

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