Project Looking Glass ....wanna try it? press here

CyberTron · 2005-11-16 09:23:39

Hi!
saw this link over at osnews: http://download.java.net/lg3d/test/lg3d.jnlp

this link, actually downloads a "live" demo of project looking glass..in java...(you need java)

works nice!

fun to play with without tampering with your linux

Snowman · 2005-11-16 09:34:55

Or you can also try the Live CD (which I did a few weeks ago ) : https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/

I was a bit slow but interesting.

CyberTron · 2005-11-16 09:52:06

Snowman wrote:

Or you can also try the Live CD (which I did a few weeks ago ) : https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/
I was a bit slow but interesting.

thanks, didn't know there was a live-cd existed

nightfrost · 2005-11-16 09:57:05

I really like looking glass. I hope it's gonna work out with the project. I'm generally a fan of opengl accelerated DEs - I find it useful and pretty

nightfrost · 2005-11-16 10:13:45

try this as well: http://download.java.net/lg3d/test/lg3d … bator.jnlp

Snowman · 2005-11-16 20:14:58

I also worked on updated PKGBUILD for looking glass. I could post them in AUR but I will need to check if they work. I thinks that lg3d wasn't working or that it was too slow...

EDIT: You could also check out metisse (another 3D desktop). There's a thread in forums and PKGBUILD in AUR.

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-25 23:54:06

Wow... That is the slowest thing I've ever seen.

Dusty · 2005-11-26 01:01:40

Gullible Jones wrote:

Wow... That is the slowest thing I've ever seen.

ah yes, Gullible and his famous Java problems... For the record, its hardware accelerated OpenGL, sohuldn't be any slower than your favourite 3D games. ;-)

Another project of interest is metisse:

http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/

I actually had metisse running in pekwm with project looking glass running in metisse a few weeks ago. :-D

Dusty

nightfrost · 2005-11-26 12:52:00

I've never been able to get metisse working... I'm gonna give it another try again soon enough though...

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-26 14:54:10

Yep, I know it's hardware accelerated. Well, Cube is fast as all shit, but Looking Glass is definitely not. The damn thing had my cursor moving in one-inch jumps.

(No idea why either. Slow to start I can understand, but once the code's been interpreted, it ought to be fast.)

mezoko · 2005-11-26 15:44:29

Hey Jones what graphic card? I have a cheap shitty 64MB onbaord.

Dusty · 2005-11-26 16:28:36

Actually, now that I think of it, Looking Glass wasn't too responsive on my 450 PII either.

Its possible the problem is with Java webstart technology, though I don't see why. AFAIK it runs it natively once you accept the risks.

Dusty

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-26 17:26:04

Cactus: same "cheap shitty 64MB onboard" here - VIA Unichrome, which is actually one hell of a lot better than my last video card. DRI is enabled, and Cube works fine, so Looking Glass ought to as well.

Dusty · 2005-11-26 17:39:19

Gullible Jones wrote:

Cactus: same "cheap shitty 64MB onboard" here

ROFL..... its not Cactus! 8) That must have been a compliment, MSG.

Dusty

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-26 18:32:25

Gah, sorry msg43. *bonk* Must have been the damned ape avatar...

arooaroo · 2005-11-26 21:28:56

Hmm... too many monkeys in this gaff.

Dusty · 2005-11-26 22:17:43

arooaroo wrote:

Hmm... too many monkeys in this gaff.

you're one to talk, everybody thinks you're an aussi.

Dusty

arooaroo · 2005-11-27 13:54:50

Bloody Pommes! They're always trying to pass themselves off as Aussis. Er, or maybe not.

No body takes the avatars literally do they? You're not really a flag, are you Dusty?

Dusty · 2005-11-27 16:37:40

I should change that, I'm hardly proud to be Canadian anymore.

kozaki · 2005-12-08 14:09:22

They say on their bbs why Underground Desktop switched to Arch in those posts :

difference with archlinux Wed, 2005-11-23 - what's the mains differences with archlinux ? what's improvement ?

Underground Desktop (Arch based) Wed, 2005-11-23 - But I thought it was perfect being the only i686 debian optimized distro. But why arch?

Next release Sat, 2005-10-22 - I think next release will not be based on debian anymore. I am considering switching to Arch Linux as a base for Underground. I'm trying Arch and I find it a very nice distro, even better than debian. As a side effect, Underground wouldn't have a graphical installation anymore.

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-08 20:56:30

Wrong topic, methinks!

Arch Linux

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