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Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative

Posted by timothy on from the requires-a-wallet-downgrade dept.

Interested in a 3D desktop? zoso submitted news about about a project called Metisse, writing "There is working and freely available alternative to the (soon to be released under GPL) Sun Looking Glass 3D desktop ( Slashdot story here) If you have spare CPU/GPU cycles just go download and compile the first publicly available version of this X Desktop. Everything looks nice (screenshots here), has OpenGL support, transparency and all other whistles...."

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  1. Re:can someone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is in case your monitor is not actually lined up with your chair, now you can just twist the picture.

  2. Top Ten Reasons Why This Is Cool by daeley · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) If you are standing to one side of your monitor, it would appear perfectly straight.

    2) Writing code in a microgravity environment, you would need your windows to match your attitude relative the monitor.

    3) Twisted? At least it's not doing the hokey-pokey.

    4) Or *is* it?

    5) If your document were Medusa, you would not want to look directly at it.

    6) If you combine two sideways documents and a Clippy, you can make an airplane and fly it around your desktop.

    7) 2D is teh L4M3.

    8) You get more points per kill because it's harder to shoot them.

    9) Extreme coding challengers are bored and want new horizons.

    10) Anybody can type in a straight line.

    --
    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  3. Anyone else look at those screenshots and say... by McCall · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I know this, this is UNIX!"