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LiveCD Lets You Try Out Project Looking Glass

Posted by timothy on from the slick-interface dept.

remember_beos writes "Sun created Project Looking Glass (LG3D) as a 'proof of concept' not long ago. It is an environment for Linux, like KDE or Gnome, but with some really great 3D functionality. More than just eye-candy, LG3D provides functional use of an extra spatial dimension on your desktop. Now there is a LiveCD for us all to try it out."

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  1. Re:Worth it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't know, ask Apple. Their UI uses the GPU and it has for awhile now.

    *sigh* This must be the commonest myth on Slashdot.

    Like all myths, it has a grain of truth at its core: Quartz Extreme does indeed make use of the graphics hardware. But ONLY FOR COMPOSITING. That's right, the only thing it uses the GPU for is mixing pixel colors in those neat transparency effects. It does not use it for anything else. It doesn't even use it for rendering fonts, even though they're exactly the sort of thing that could usefully be accelerated by GPU rendering.

    This is not at all the same thing as next-generation UIs - like Avalon, Looking Glass, and Apple's next technology - which actually use the GPU for rendering as well.