Compiz-Quinn(now Compiz-Fusion)for linux. The future is now!
Click ‘MORE’ Please n Read… This is Xgl/Compiz(now known as Beryl Project) running on my secondary comp which is an old (2002) dell with 2.4 ghz P4 proc, Nvidia 6600 GT gfx card, and only 512 megs of RAM. The music is Sidology Ep 2: Trinity, By Machinae Supremacy. This Linux install was suse 10.1 and I now use Sabayon Linux. Which you can get here: www.sabayonlinux.org Three versions include Mini CD install, Full x86 32bit install and Full x86 64bit install dvds! The theme is a custom theme; which unfortunately I lost when my main hardrive died on me. However, you can get the wallpaper I used from my box.net account here: www.box.net A few other cool backgrounds here: www.box.net www.box.net The original backgrounds I downloaded from www.caedes.net; a great site which has many many more awesome backgrounds. The cubecaps are from art.gnome.org. Go here for ‘Powered by Free Software’ cubecap (this one was downscaled from the original using gimp to 1280×1024 to work with my res) art.gnome.org and here for ‘Linux – Rided The Wave’ cubecap. art.gnome.org The skydome can be found here. It, along with several of the others below, I made myself by splicing a mirrored version of the original and modifying it slightly so the two sides don’t appear as perfect replicas of each other. www.box.net A couple other cool skydomes: www.box.net www.box.net www.box.net enjoy 
March 12th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
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March 12th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Creativity
Thank you very much
March 13th, 2010 at 12:36 am
I just discovered Mesa Gallium 3D Open Source driver and this makes VirtualBox Apps and OS installs, fully capable of hardware acceleration, on a composited desktop layer!
March 13th, 2010 at 12:36 am
@rkingsboro Right now w/in Mesa we have Gallium 3D launching. It’ll have the ability to run VM applications (like games) w/ direct hardware support in a composited desktop layer. Doing this in full screen no less!
DD
So the scenario is you’re running Linux. You don’t even have a Windows VM running, but you have a shortcut to Crysis on your Desktop. It’s installed into a Win VM wrapper. Click the link & the game will run in a composited layer on Linux.
Mesa/Linux on PS3 w/acceleration even!
March 13th, 2010 at 1:02 am
Personal preferences are cool, but being an Elitest is not the best to spread the news that Linux is a great OS option for anyone!
Bayonetta is danger of falling into that trap. I know because I was in it, installing Gentoo from scratch at 14yo. It’s the kernel that make Linux, LINUX! …not how complicated it is to install & how much time you put into it or that you’re fluent in GeekSpeak w/ CLI!
I’ve installed Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, SuSE (here) & Sabayon is my fav & easiest!
March 13th, 2010 at 1:03 am
@Bayonetta4
BTW Awesome video 
Well Ubuntu IS GNU/LINUX but its of the “easy” distributions. Its a good start/use for people who use computers for basic purposes. If you want a “real” Linux, Linux from Scratch is the way to go
March 13th, 2010 at 1:46 am
VirtualBox is simply another VMware type product for Windoz. Although you can run Linux virtual machines, they’re not running directly on the hardware. So they’re slower than an actual install & will not be capable of compiz-fusion effects.
Also the main object of Compiz-Fusion is to reduce the compute load on the CPU. By using the GPU to do all display the Desktop & graphics!
Now we also have OpenCL for shared CPU workload on the GPU. Which makes Linux the most efficient OS on the planet!
March 13th, 2010 at 2:01 am
“with VirtualBox Windows is compatible..”
So many people miss the entire reason behind the movement to Linux and continue to toss hundred dollar bills at Microsoft when they could have an equivalent (some say superior) product, unofficially supported by thousands of people (often better than Microsoft supports Windows) for free.
The only thing stopping me from removing Windows forever are PC game publishers. As soon as this is remedied, I’m done. Linux already does everything else better.
March 13th, 2010 at 2:31 am
with VirtualBox Windows is compatible with more than 99.9% of the Linux software
March 13th, 2010 at 3:19 am
i havent figured out that, but ubuntu is not really a Linux, i had ubuntu for a couple of weaks.. its just like a perfect windows – without all the bugs and slowdowns and viruses… now i switched to Slackware 13.0-current – the REAL LINUX
its a bit harder, cuz u have to make most of the settings urself and it doesnt scan for dependencies… so it takes more effort to install software and make it work
but its the best Linux there is
and aftera person learns Slackware – he knows Linux
March 13th, 2010 at 4:00 am
ure wrong – with Wine Linux is compatible with more than 50% of the Winblows software
compiz effects require 512MB RAM, 1.5GHZ, 128GFX ..
aero effects require 1+GB RAM, 2GHZ (preferably DUAL CORE), 128GOOD GFX
sum those up – Linux is less resource eating and more functional .. its a matter of time people realise how GOOD Linux is – its lightning years ahead of that crap windows
and as for windows 7 – it just came out.. its fixed vista and ints not yet compatible with all the software
March 13th, 2010 at 5:00 am
yeah theres an plugin just google “compiz 3d model plugin” or something
March 13th, 2010 at 5:02 am
Is there such thing as 3D background for the desktop cube? You know, so you could switch between desktops and watch e.g. stonehedge in 3D instead of just its ugly stretched picture.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:14 am
@RealFduch Hmm… I wonder why it took so long for Longhorn/Vista/7 if they had all these wonderful aero compositing effects in 2003. It took MS 5 years to release Vista and 7 is still a slow, buggy, insecure, mess that doesn’t do any of the things originally promised. Probably 60% of peoples’ computers can’t use full Aero effects without a major performance hindrance. On top of the performance hog of a UI it STILL doesn’t do 99% of the things shown in those 2003 demos.
March 13th, 2010 at 6:14 am
>released *to the public*
Hmm… For most open-source software “released to the public” means “it compiles if you try really hard”.
I wonder why it took so long for XGL/Compiz if they had the wonderful Metacity available…?
March 13th, 2010 at 7:07 am
>is using OpenGL Linux to make all movie SFX
Why would they use GAMING grapics API for movie SFX? Why are you comparing completely different things?
(Is it because Linux people try to use OpenGL for games instead of it’s intended areas?)
March 13th, 2010 at 7:37 am
Sorry, but you are plain wrong.
Did I say anything aboyut non-Linux systems? No.
Did I say anything about RTM releases? No.
I said that Longhorn had compositing and wobbly windows in 2003 and only in 2004 XGL alphas started to emerge.
>DirectX was developed for Games & OpenGL was developed for Professional Graphic Design & the Film Industry.
That’s where I agree with you.And they proved it even more with the release of 3.0 version.They basically told game devs games aren’t important (CAD is).
March 13th, 2010 at 8:17 am
@kroneage I’m talking about times where i can go around the desktop and do just about anything else at the same time. Even on XP i’m lucky if i can even get just 1 1080p video to run smoothly.
March 13th, 2010 at 8:32 am
with full animation, and spinning the cube at the same time. Some of those windows were videos. On this same computer I’ve also been able to run up to 12 720p videos at once (and doing various other tasks using animation) before showing slight signs of lag. 16 720 vids before showing noticeable lag. 4 1080p vids with slight signs and 6 showing noticable.
March 13th, 2010 at 9:01 am
@RealFduch I never said iVista/7 wouldn’t run period… I only said it wouldn’t run with FULL aero effects without considerable lag on this comp. Compiz has no lag whatsoever on this system. I wasn’t even pushing the system to its limits in this video. Just to test the limits of the system, at some points I’ve been able to have well over 150 windows open with no lag, make them all disappear with full animation at once and then reappear at once…
March 13th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Kroneage’s video was done nearly 4yrs ago kicks ass and NO squirrelly assed Win 7 (Blackcomb) in development since the Stone Age can hold a candle to it!
If any of you Winblows Fagots can demonstrate the speed and finesse on the desktop demonstrated here…., on Kroneage’s old video, let’s see it!
Oh…… and I install operating systems for a living. Meaning Linux, Solaris, BSD, OS-X, Windows and it’s assorted candy ass flavors….. with 7ista being my favorite to take a dump on!
March 13th, 2010 at 10:53 am
@RealFduch Linux Compiz was Out before Vista & 7ista were released to public. Aero was the last of all compositing engines!
Apple used same OpenGL API’s in Expose 2002. NeXT Step had OpenGL Compositing Desktop in mid 90’s. Amiga before that! M$ was last to get their asses out the door & still F’d up. Becuz they have to use both OpenGL & their DirectX crap!
DirectX was developed for Games & OpenGL was developed for Professional Graphic Design & the Film Industry. They can’t even be compared! xD
March 13th, 2010 at 11:14 am
@RealFduch Now let’s get this straight. Right now the film industry is using OpenGL Linux to make all movie SFX. Disney’s Pixar is the king of SFX Graphic Design & they use Dreamworks w/ Autodesk’s Mudbox. Yes in LINUX on OpenGL API’s (not your dumbass Vista or 7ista w/ DX crap)!
M$ DX API’s don’t run shit in Pro Graphics! The unsurpassed speed and unlimited feature set forced M$ to use some of it’s API’s in all OS versions from ME to 7ista!
Now OpenGL ES powers 90% of Mobile OS’s too! xD
March 13th, 2010 at 11:24 am
@kroneage
>Even the compositing WM’s released later for XP stutter horribly doing the simplest of tasks; even with all unnecessary processes eliminated.
I don’t think you can effectively create compositing WMs for pre-Vista MS OSes.
March 13th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
@kroneage
I currently run Windows 7 on Athlon 3200+ and it’s really fast. I successfully run Windows 7 on Pentium III with 512Mb RAM and S3 Trio 64+ video card without ANY 3D acceleration. People have Installed Windows 7 on Pentium II PCs.