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Looking-Glass Based Distro Reviewed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the looking-at-the-looking-glass dept.

mymaxx writes "Tuxmachines.org has a review of LG3D, a LiveCD distro using Sun's Looking Glass technology. It looks very promising for the future of desktops, but it still has a ways to go." Tuxmachines also has a few screenshots for your viewing pleasure.

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  1. ISO! by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here

  2. Corel Cache. by bfizzle · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.tuxmachines.org.nyud.net:8090/gallery/l g3d

    1. Re:Corel Cache. by timeOday · · Score: 2, Informative

      thumbnails only :(

  3. Link hosed before the FP ... by evolve75 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The link is down before the FP!
    Here are some screenshots for Looking glass from Sun's site:
    http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details. xml

  4. Torrent! by patrickclay · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the Looking Glass Live CD torrent

  5. Minor correction by bcmm · · Score: 4, Informative

    LG3D is not a livecd. LG3D is a unconventional desktop environment that Sun Microsystems is developing. LG3D-livecd is a livecd for trying it out.

    --
    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
  6. ATI card on linux by ohsoot · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think I'll need to get the 3d working for my ATI card on my laptop before I can use this.

  7. Nothing new to see here... by InvalidError · · Score: 2, Informative

    This story was first posted back on March 2nd:
    http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/02/ 201216&tid=189&tid=102&tid=106

  8. Re:That "revolutionary" 3D desktop thing again? by hattig · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wasn't aware it used Java, but if it does then Java + OpenGL (via JOGL) performs very nicely.

  9. User experience by lightyear4 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I stumbled across this liveCD two days ago on distrowatch and simply could not help downloading it, if only out of curiosity. I had thought LookingGlass to be defunct, but it seems theyre making quite some progress. The livecd is slax-popcorn based, boots in about two minutes with some (very) minimal hardware detection - though to be fair, it picked up on my video card and configured it for acceleration. When it loads into X, youre dropped into a plain ole minimal fluxbox desktop. At this point, I started poking around wondering when and where the Looking Glass would show up. But, never fear, its simply loading. Give it a little while and the java desktop will load in a window unto itself. Its a little cpu intensive, so you would benefit from a faster box with a decent amount of ram. The interface is rather slick..think aqua which has traded perfect eyecandy novel three-dimensional windowing (its still in development, so perfection is by no means expected - expect a few random lockups). If anyone does download and boot from it, I suggest clicking on the blue star at bottom right - it has information concerning the desktop's operation. At top left are three funky icons that are virtual desktops. The menu doesnt really work too well, but all things considered it does look pretty interesting. Window focussing and transparencies are rather well done as well. Concerning the innovative features and functions of the wm, you just have to see it; an explanation in text would not do it justice. The website is, of course, on its knees thanks to the slashdot deluge, but hopefully this little bit will help.

  10. Open Croquet by aywwts4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You think that looks silly you should see this.

    Croquet http://www.opencroquet.org/

    Basicly you get 3D desktop and web environments, and you exist inside of them (imagine being in a first person shooter.. and instead of shooting, looking at your computer. Now imagine this being a MMOG and instead of the person sneaking up behind you and shooting you in the head online; he is able to see what your doing and interact with you and your screen.

    --
    Web Developers: Celebrate to our roots! Animated Gifs and Tiled Backgrounds, dont let our history die!
  11. Re:Been waiting, LG3D has been influential though by aconbere · · Score: 2, Informative

    if you look around you'll find some links to croquet, which is exactly what you're describing here. ~Anders

  12. Re:Been waiting, LG3D has been influential though by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm still waiting for a window manager based on a first-person shooter interface

    I wrote a wireframed 3d filemanager close to fifteen years ago. It used a shopping cart and room (directory) metaphor, where you could snag files from the walls of the rooms, put them in your basket or run them from where they were. You moved around your filesystem in pseudo 3d space, and could "jump" to any one of three shopping carts.

    It sucked. Working with filesystems in FPS 3d seems like a good idea, but in reality, it's much slower than 2d filemangers. If you want to try it, there was a Descent-like FPS called Virus which turned your filesystem into the play arena for the game. It sucked too, but not as bad as my filemanger...

    --
    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  13. X.org composition manager by cachimaster · · Score: 3, Informative

    Little off-topic, but anyone with Linux, a nvidia card and x.org should test xcompmgr, it gives you hardware-accelerated translucency, ala OS-X. It looks gorgeus, and works with gnome and kde. A must have!
    Disclaimer: Iam not related in any way to xcompmgr. Just a happy user.

  14. Video of Project Looking Glass in Action by digid · · Score: 2, Informative

    Watch Executive Vice President Jonathan Schwartz demo Project Looking Glass. The video is kind of old but first time I saw it was pretty impressed relative to the desktop eye candy at the time:
    http://webcast-east.sun.com/archives/GSN-1312/GSN- 1312_forjds.mov