Take a look at this

Really amazing

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Did you think Windows Vista was the first with a 3D Desktop?, take a look at Xgl and get amazed.
I never thought Linux could do that, Xgl will be standard when Xorg 7 gets out



If you want to try it in your Windows machine, download a live CD of Kororaa Linux, just boot it and you ave a Linux with 3D effects that will amaze you.

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youtube.com video


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There are plenty where this came from (¿?), just picked the first

Sorry for some grammar mistakes
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Windows Vista wasn't the first....nor was a Linux distro.  You could look a little more closely into the history of alternate Windows Shells....from years ago....
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've seen some 3D shells for Windows like Blueberry (will be shut down closely), Win3D, Rooms, SphereXP.

In fact the Kororaa distro didn't implement 3D it was Xgl, Kororaa just is a build of Xgl over Gentoo.
If I missed any alternate shell please say it. I would be glad

The 3D shells I have found don't get to the level of Xgl. And some of theme, like SphereXP are very buggy and slow (maybe my computer, 128 mb video, 2.5 ghz and 512 in ram (nothing amazing)) As I have teste Xgl is very stable and works fine with a 64 mb video card
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It will be nice to see some of those effects incorporated into WindowFX... hope someone is listening....
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Holy crap! I'm still living in the dark ages. I didn't know you could do those kinds of things.

I wasn't super impressed until they turned the "cube". That floored me.

Gotta try it now!
Will it mess anything up by using the live cd? I mean are there risks? I've never used Linux so I'm at a loss. (Please forgive my newbie status on the matter.)

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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just download the Kororaa 3D live-cd and boot it, Maybe
there is an install option on your desktop, don't touch it, I have booted some live cds like Gentoo and PCLinuxOS with no problems but never Kororaa. Using KDE or Gnome is very easy to do simple tasks but if you want to take the whole power of the OS you must use the command-line
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
! OMG

See where they "turned" the desktop? I have always wanted that with windows. I meantioned a while back how cool that would be if you could skin each side with a different windowblinds theme.

Awesome video .