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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

  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. 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.

  7. 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.