X and Eye Candy

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hey all,

I've downloaded and booted a copy of the Kororaa distribution, and I 
highly recommend that others here have a look at this glimpse at the 
future of the open source desktop.

This is a live CD distro (it _can't_ install on your HD), based on 
Gentoo, for systems with NVidea or ATI cards that can do hardare-based 
OpenGL. This distro essentially demos the XGL hardware acceleration 
stuff that Novell contributed not long ago, and it is really something. 
Have a look at the demos a http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/ 
and/or then see them for yourself by booting Kororaa. While this 
particular live CD is based on GNOME (which is funny for a distro whose 
name starts with "K"), I'm looking forward to seeing this applied to a 
KDE-based system. It adds all kinds of interesting features *and* runs 
faster than regular X, by taking advantage of hardware video acceleration.

In a similar vein here, has anyone here installed either KBFX or 
SuperKaramba? If so, what did you think of them?

Thanks!

- Evan
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