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New Desktop for Linux Peeps - a must see!

Dec 10, 2003 bigun89 link
Check out this desktop guys, here's a screenie:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/screenshot.html?img=/software/images/products/I1_looking_glass_lg.jpg&alt=Project%20Looking%20Glass%20screenshot

And here's a video demonstration, most impressive:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/demo.html

I want some opinions on this
Dec 10, 2003 mcnut link
yeah, it rocks.. I've been running it since it was in alpha... fun stuff really...ok, I've been wishing I have been running this since I heard about it. thank god for Sun.. even if they are canadian.
Dec 10, 2003 bigun89 link
Don't taunt me like that, I was about to ask for a copy until you told me you *wish* you had. Me want....BAD!
Dec 10, 2003 bigun89 link
Don't taunt me like that, I was about to ask for a copy until you told me you *wish* you had. Me want....BAD!
Dec 10, 2003 HumpyThePenguin link
Double post! mwaha!
Dec 10, 2003 roguelazer link
Ignore this. There was a long thread dissecting it at Gentoo Forums. Basically, it's either one of three things:

A) A standard X with a very fast "screenshot" method like 3ddesk and KDE (menus) use

B) An accelerated, highly closed source X that probably won't run on our hardware anyhow.

C) A mockup made by Maya/Blender/etc
Dec 10, 2003 bigun89 link
Why would it be so hard to consider this to be a reality?
Dec 10, 2003 mcnut link
sun has an official page about it roguelazer its supposed to end up supporting the sun setup and linux.

http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/