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Looking Glass for Lunux!

 
 Discussion by lxcid with 3 Replies.
 Last Update: October 10, 2004, 10:14 am
 
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http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/

This 3d environment desktop for linux is really darn cool... i watch a video on it which my teacher show it to me and i think its superb... for your info, this is done in java... and open source!!! can u believe it!!! i am a windows user... really too bad for me... sighx... anyway here's the screenshots taken from the site...

md_1.jpg
md_4.jpg
pan-r_1.jpg
pan-r_3.jpg
pan_1.jpg
pan_5.jpg
ss10.jpg
ss12.jpg
ss4_sm.jpg
ss6.jpg

here is the where u can find more screenshot!

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

Enjoy!

   Sat Oct 9, 2004    Reply         

It looks good, but i just dont think its user friendly enough for every day use yet....
to me, its just eye candly, wasted cpu cycles, higer minimum sys requirements.

   Sat Oct 9, 2004    Reply         

i'm not sure abt that but here's wad i find...

QUOTE

To run a graphically-intensive program such as Project Looking Glass, Domingo says users would need a 3D graphics accelerator, a 850-MHz Pentium 3 processor or better, and a minimum of 256MB of memory, plus an approved graphics card.


its from http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0%2Cai...114615%2C00.asp well, i guess by this requirement to me is considering middle or low... i heard microsoft wanted to do that to longhorn... well, i'm not surprise... and the requirement for longhorn is said to be much higher den this... i wonder would i get longhorn when it come out... hm...





   Sun Oct 10, 2004    Reply         


Yeah well, that's a lot of memory to be using just for the OS :)
I use Windows anyways.

   Sun Oct 10, 2004    Reply         

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