Open Life

Is interesting how many people will are in awe with Vista but probably will never meet what is on Linux with Beryl and XGL. So with Vista you get about 5 new effects, maybe the thumb generation, the windows fliping on a deck-like card manner.

However Beryl has probably 100 effects, between the famous rotating virtual cubes, wobbling windows, and great animations.

Vista will probably eat your pants off when it ocmes to hardware, it will ask for more than 1GB of ram just to run. Linux on the flipside, will just require 250 mb of ram with an NVIDIA and ATI card.

So maybe people will never know about this project, but if you got to this blogpost, you are not one of them. So if you really want a 3d experience you should check out youtube and look at the many videos about XGL and Beryl.

Beryl Project
This is a fork of Compiz and you might be able to get it from many of the most popular distros. It wont be available by default on many of the distros but you can get livecd with this beryl in it. You can get http://kororaa.org/.

Compiz
Compiz is the original project engineered by the people from Novell which shook the linux community. I think this is what put linux on the map for many people that up until now thought that Linux was just a command line OS.

Enlgihtment - E17
Englightment is a windows manager that has a huge and very sight forwarding visionary desktop which is is basically awesome. I believe that Enlgihtment is also a very different to many desktops and you just feel like a unique 3d environment.

Mandriva Metisse
Mandriva Linux has come up wiht a reimplemntation of fwm with a 3D-like rendering theme, the great thing is that you dont need a 3d card. This will make able lower level computers to run a 3d-like enviement on a slower PC.