OpenGL Desktop

i've been interested in an OpenGL rendered desktop for linux for a number of years now. having some extra time on my hands this 4th of July weeked, i decided to see how many more years i'll have to wait.

freedesktop.org is definately on the right track with their XGL project:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXgl

Novell/SUSE recently hired the XGL lead:

http://www.nat.org/2005/february/#9-February-2005

and presented XGL at Brainshare so we might see it in the next Novell Desktop or SUSE release.

Luminocity looks pretty cool too:

http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xshots

clearly there's no need to worry if the linux desktop will be able to compete with the admittedly excess eye candy of OS X or Longwait...er, Longhorn.

personally, for everyday use i prefer a minimalist enviroment like XFCE.

http://www.xfce.org/

i also like the little mouse logo. YUM! take it for a spin with the XFLD live CD:

http://www.xfld.org/Xfld/en/index.html