Showcasing Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 17:13, Andrew <andrew at swinndesign.com> wrote:
> I have already considered xgl/compiz but unfortunately I will not have a
> pc with enough oomph to pull that one off.

At CeBIT we were demonstrating XGL (via a Kororaa LiveCD) on a $300 IBM 
ThinkCentre. The hardware was intended for ordinary office use, and hence was 
very modest. The graphics chipset, the most vital part for XGL, was an 
embedded Intel type that siphoned memory from system RAM.

This enabled us to demonstrate transparency (even with videos), animations and 
the cube effect when changing desktops. Spectators were very impressed when 
we told them that this can all be achieved on an el-cheapo box. Microsoft has 
been trying to convince the populace that you'll need the latest and greatest 
hardware to make use of the special effects in Vista. At CeBIT, we were able 
to tell people that they are able to do it all on their current machines, and 
that it'll arrive much sooner than Vista.

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