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- ViceVirtue, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32Compiz Fusion and WINE are just amazing!
Someone ought to upload a video of it running CS:Source (simply because it's a direct-X game).- 0owh0r5xzs, on 10/11/2007, -18/+2There are at least 1000 videos of Compiz/Beryl playing games on every desktop, shown every single plugin in every way, etc. etc.Do we really need more?
We get it, it's superior to all others, now can you stop using the video-record plugin for a change and stop showing off?- Prefix, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1What he said, the amount of videos of the 3d cube is frustrating.
Its saturated the Linux videos tbh, in such a way that it seems the only advatage of linux is you can have a cube.
Stop it!
- Prefix, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1What he said, the amount of videos of the 3d cube is frustrating.
- ioannusdeverani, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1WINE sucks. Period.
- 0owh0r5xzs, on 10/11/2007, -18/+2There are at least 1000 videos of Compiz/Beryl playing games on every desktop, shown every single plugin in every way, etc. etc.Do we really need more?
- shrewduser, on 10/22/2007, -3/+47for the record my specs are thusly:
Pentium D 805 (2.6 ghz) Geforce 7600GS , 1gb generic DDR2 RAM.- Felshadow, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19Thats not a modest computer :P although, i can do this with my Pentium 4 (2 ghz) Radeon 9600, and 1 gb of ram.
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10I have a crappy dell laptop with VERY crappy integrated intel graphics and only 512 mb of ram and it can run everything smoothly, including Expo and desktop cube with transparency, everything without lowering settings. I've tested running firefox, opera, thunderbird, pidgin, vlc playing a dvd, openoffice, amarok, and wine running a graphics demo app
Note: this is my crappy old laptop, my new one with 2 gigs of ram and a more powerful video card is able to run counter strike and alot of other things also =) i highly recommend trying compiz fusion. there is a howto guide here:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Compiz_Fusion_How_to/all
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10I have a crappy dell laptop with VERY crappy integrated intel graphics and only 512 mb of ram and it can run everything smoothly, including Expo and desktop cube with transparency, everything without lowering settings. I've tested running firefox, opera, thunderbird, pidgin, vlc playing a dvd, openoffice, amarok, and wine running a graphics demo app
- MrSarcasm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16lol, "modest" 1gb RAM and GF 7 series ;)
I have 512MB of RAM and GeForce 4 and run XP on it just fine. (and also Feisty in dual boot)- shakin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I've got a GF4 MX and 768 MB RAM and can run all Compiz Fusion effects perfectly. Vista, however, is not such a nice experience.
- AngryBacon, on 10/11/2007, -5/+30It's modest by vista standards :D
- dark_ryan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Hey, Vista Aero uses more system resources than Linux Beryl or now Compiz Fusion. Let's just say that's being kind :D
- KielKilla, on 10/11/2007, -11/+0I'm not even going to begin on how wrong you are.
- Spuy767, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9By Vista standards, My 8 core Mac Pro is a modest computer.
- dark_ryan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4No. A 16 core 3ghz (o/ced to 4ghz per core) with 16gb of ram, and a 8800GTX 768mb of ram is considered modest.
- dark_ryan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Hey, Vista Aero uses more system resources than Linux Beryl or now Compiz Fusion. Let's just say that's being kind :D
- bestfilmofthe, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Tbh, i am not surprised your computer can run all of those at once, im, firefox, and cs1.6 (looks like 1.6 anyway?) don't need a super computer to run ;)
- killerofkiller, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5pentium D and a Geforce 7xxx are not modest..
- FlakMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Pentium D certainly is. It's probably the worst processor Intel has ever launched; it's right up there with the initial Prescott release.
- wafflez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@flakmonkey..
you haven't heard of celeron then have you? - init100, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Okay. Pentium D is the second worst processor line Intel has ever released, only surpassed by the Celeron line. Satisfied? :)
- wafflez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@flakmonkey..
- FlakMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Pentium D certainly is. It's probably the worst processor Intel has ever launched; it's right up there with the initial Prescott release.
- k4rr4s, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Thats it ... I am dual booting my PC next chance I get!
I have had Ubuntu on a box as a headless server for quite a while and love it ... but with that performance at that spec its sealed the deal for me!
I have a P4 - 2.8 Ghz, 512 mb mem and a Radion 9200 (its GOT to go!), will see what I get out of it with ubuntu. (ubuntu.com - ftw!)
V Nice vid BTW! - tracker5kx, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3pentium D = junk
- JonForTheWin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I have one of the higher end Pentium Ds and I agree.
- gavintlgold, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Remember though, the screen capture program slows things down a lot. I'm amazed how fast it ran considering.
- saintdesy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1How the hell did you get wine to run CS? It just takes a total ***** whenever I try to do it.
- StealthTomato, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2w00t! Those are my EXACT specs. Like, EXACT specs.
That makes me happy now.
- Felshadow, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19Thats not a modest computer :P although, i can do this with my Pentium 4 (2 ghz) Radeon 9600, and 1 gb of ram.
- hatchetj, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16that is utterly spectacular. doesn't run quite as well as that on my Pentium M 1.5ghz laptop, but its still just as useful. i leave all the pretty stuff that doesn't help productivity turned off and it runs just fine. it doesn't seem to like avi's that are a little too big, just get a blue box, but youtube vids work great.
Vista won't run well with all that pretty stuff it boasts completely turned off... - Jugalator, on 10/11/2007, -13/+20The reason there's no special slowdowns is because it's hardware accelerated, so that's why it's so "amazing". Now, sorry if sounding like a pompous geek, but what's new here? I think I saw the first rotating desktops and jumping windows with multimedia and games playing at least over a year ago? Why did this suddenly make Digg now? Am I missing something here? Was it for some unknown reason to me expected that e.g. WINE would run worse on compiz?
- MrSarcasm, on 10/11/2007, -8/+21It's digg - every 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1 WINE release gets to the front page, every compiz/beryl video gets to the front page, and also every "I can run firefox on linux" story gets here. Actually, I'm pretty surprised there's no "Ubuntu" in the title :/
- superyounan1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Compiz fusion is the new exciting thing now, so its going to get to the front page. But he could have shown the "multitasking prowess" better by showign off the grouptab plugin, which is new, and maybe moving winodws around in expo
- GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Grouptab is hardly new to Linux
- superyounan1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2really? i guess i never noticed it
- GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Grouptab is hardly new to Linux
- oracleofmist, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7Its making front page because beryl merged back with compiz and all their cool plugins are getting put into compiz and better integration to the desktop
- edoo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I thought the video was interesting. I like to see what type of performance people are getting on specific types of system.
- mrmacky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It's so special and just hitting digg now because Compiz *Fusion* was just released, the re-merge of the Beryl/Compiz split. Regardless there are lot's of new effects in Fusion that were non existent in the Beryl and Compiz forks.
- sephiroth965, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Do I have to uninstall Beryl before I install Compiz Fusion? (I know this isn't a support forum but it's just a single yes or no question.)
- SatNav, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10nope. you can have compiz, beryl and fusion all installed on one system. though obviously you can only run one at a time.
- Ryuuzaki, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2... in a single X server.
If you, for example, have two videocards, screens, keyboards and mice, there's no problem with running one for each set.
- Ryuuzaki, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2... in a single X server.
- linkin1, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1yes, no , wait yes, wait wait no no
and this is your yes or no answer - superyounan1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I was able to install it and run it without removing beryl first, but make sure beryl isnt set to start on boot. However I did have to remove it in order to use my emerald themes with Fusion, so it would probably be best
- Mejogid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You can have compiz-fusion/beryl or compiz/breyl, but fusion uses many of the same paths as compiz vanilla, so unless someone heavily mods it its either or.
- oracleofmist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I had to remove compiz as suggested by the ubuntu guide at the forums but beryl is still getting updates and i have no problems
- 13thMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I couldn't get fusion to work with Emerald either (no window frames) but it worked fine with KWin. Didn't have time to remove Beryl so I'll try it another time. There's a couple of things Beryl does better that haven't been implemented in Fusion yet (using the mouse wheel to spin the cube for example) so I'll give it a couple of days and then try it. Maybe it will work with Emerald on KDE by the time I get round to it...
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1to get fusion to work with emerald, run: compiz --replace -c emerald
- 13thMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1All that did was crash my X
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+113th monkey, that's strange, that's what i've been doing and it works fine. make sure you uninstall everything related to beryl/compiz by using this command: sudo apt-get --purge remove beryl beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-plugins-data beryl-settings beryl-settings-bindings emerald libberyldecoration0 libberylsettings0 libemeraldengine0 compiz compiz-plugins
then try reinstalling fusion
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+113th monkey, that's strange, that's what i've been doing and it works fine. make sure you uninstall everything related to beryl/compiz by using this command: sudo apt-get --purge remove beryl beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-plugins-data beryl-settings beryl-settings-bindings emerald libberyldecoration0 libberylsettings0 libemeraldengine0 compiz compiz-plugins
- 13thMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1All that did was crash my X
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1to get fusion to work with emerald, run: compiz --replace -c emerald
- SatNav, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10nope. you can have compiz, beryl and fusion all installed on one system. though obviously you can only run one at a time.
- Limezor, on 10/11/2007, -15/+8I have an almost an equivalent computer running Vista Aero, with Counter Strike: Source, MSN, FireFox and Windows Media Player without any "lag".
- ATH025, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4Uh... 'grats?
- superyounan1, on 10/11/2007, -6/+5you can more easily manage multiple windows with ubuntu. There are also many other benefits, such as security, speed, and cost. My computer is older and struggles with vista, but it can run the more impressive effects of Compiz Fusion with ease. I also don't need to have McAffee or Nortin Antivirus installed bogging my resources down since it is naturally more safe and secure.
and you know how nice windows updates are? well ALL my software updates automatically using ubuntu's software repositories.
but off course there are downsides to it, just like most things in life, theres a give and take. - oracleofmist, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6the big woot about running cs was that it was in linux, which does not natively support directx, if you can run steam games in vista pat yourself on the back cuz everyone else with a decent pc can as well. let me know when you get sp1 for vista cuz i bet the next ubuntu release will be done by then. yay for ubuntu
- google01103, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3And little ol me, I've got an igp (Nvidia 6100) with only 64mb allocated of shared memory and Compiz is flawless - let's see you run Areo on this setup
- zybch, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2Its kind of funny that the linuxtards want to make a big song and dance about this, the same thing that has been available in other OSs for quite a while now.
- DPyro, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4It's kinda funny how the linuxtards had this thing already up and running before the other OS's had it.
- k4rr4s, on 10/11/2007, -13/+0Now that is sexeh!
N1!
CS SuX Btw - TFC @ Jolt.co.uk FTW! ;o) - Snarfy, on 10/11/2007, -6/+20Ironically, sitting here running kubuntu feisty 64 bit + compiz fusion, I cannot watch the video :(
Flash player is STILL not supported under Linux 64 bit?!? wtf? I have everything working except for youtube :(.- disoriented, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2use swiftfox 32bit...works like a dream
- hydraw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1... Or even use Swiftweasel - it has a nicer license than swiftfox(http://swiftweasel.sourceforge.net/)
although I normally just use nspluginwrapper and put up with its buggyness
- hydraw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1... Or even use Swiftweasel - it has a nicer license than swiftfox(http://swiftweasel.sourceforge.net/)
- oracleofmist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2when i used 64 bit is used nspluginwrapper, however the drawback was that everytime i closed firefox i had to re-run nspluginwrapper procedures. I know there is a thread on using it in the forums. I don't personally like installing 32bit apps on a 64bit system, at least in linux, because it is a bit messy if you ask me. Vista did a clean job of it, but i just don't like vista.
- gavintlgold, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I don't remember what, but when I was using 64-bit, I did some command or other and nspluginwrapper was fixed forever (no more problems) ... So you could try that.
- hydraw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Great suggestion! I'll try some command or other and it will fix all my problems forever!
"bash: some: command not found" hmmm i don't think that's right...
- hydraw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Great suggestion! I'll try some command or other and it will fix all my problems forever!
- init100, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"I don't personally like installing 32bit apps on a 64bit system, at least in linux, because it is a bit messy if you ask me."
Why do you think that it's messy?
- gavintlgold, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I don't remember what, but when I was using 64-bit, I did some command or other and nspluginwrapper was fixed forever (no more problems) ... So you could try that.
- k4rr4s, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0What spec you got? you ever thought of running a VirtualMachine - just for the flash sites? (just an idea!)
YouTube are "sposed" to be converting their stuff for "iTV", so you should be able to get THAT to work on it! surely? - gavintlgold, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4For those who don't know: Flash player is not supported on 64-bit ONLY because Flash hasn't released it. If it were an open source project there would of course be support for it.
- bladus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I use the 32bit plugin in my 64bit firefox with nspluginwrapper, works mostly fine but sometimes crashes after watching some videos.
- blackoper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4follow the manual guide from this page. I got flash with sound working fine in 64 bit firefox http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202537
- sephiroth965, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I still can't get any audio in flash in feisty.
- generalloy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If you have two sound cards this might help: try setting it to use hw1 in /etc/asound.conf ..there's some stuff on google about it. Of course your sound will probably work perfectly on Gnash, because Adobe's flash stupidly uses ALSA directly.
- fatfishy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202537
run that script it will install multiple 32 bit browsers and plugins. - phaed, on 10/22/2007, -0/+2This is the reason why you should never install 64 bit vversion of any distro. ever. Because you will never have a complete system. You will sit like a jackass with that pseudo-system for the next 5 years complaining about the lack of 64-bit across the board compatibility. Save ur *****, wipe the partition, and start over with the 32 version of the distro. You wont notice the slightest difference and your nerves will thank you. Unless you're running Mathematica you will not need 64-bit addressing.
- disoriented, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2use swiftfox 32bit...works like a dream
- scabbers, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7This helps your productivity or counter-strike skill?
- GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Both, there's a skill to juggling CS and OOo
- JasonCox, on 10/11/2007, -21/+4Wow, you mean a story about someone who can do what we all can do on any other OS made it to the front page?
*eye roll*- Ac1d, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Try doing half the stuff that compiz fusion can do on "any other OS", you probably won't get far.
- wedderburn, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1@Ac1d, i dunno mac os's composite manager does a pretty good job of fancy effects and its been working on machines that are hell slow(400mhz PPC).
course most of these effects are subtle like expose and the minimize animations but they're there and they're all accelerated effects. - PepeGSay, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2lol, it's a bunch of useless eye candy if you ask me. I mean it's cool, but putting your windows on a rotating cube has a certain geeky "so what" lameness to it really...
- 0owh0r5xzs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Every time there's a Beryl/Compiz story, jasoncox the microsoft fanboy comes to the rescue!
- deadbaby, on 10/22/2007, -6/+37It's amazing how the Linux desktop GUI (KDE, GNOME or whatever you like to use) has grown so much in the last 2 years. I remember when Linux's UI was a complete embarrassment now it's blowing Vista & OSX out of the water. The ability to control every detail of the 3D engine really lets you be creative on how your desktop looks and works. I have my Linux machine fine tuned for the best mix of eyecandy and performance -- when I go back to OSX or Windows I feel very limited now.
- yoranyo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9snarfy: Use this link to get your flash working. Make sure you don't have 2 flash plugins in .mozilla directory.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341727
Or you can run 32 bit firefox that will solve the problem and everything will work. That's what I use. I don't notice any difference in running either ones. I have both 32 bit and 64 bit installed. Java and google toolbar's bookmarks are broken in 64 bit. That's why I have to use 32 bit.
Good Luck.
By the way ubuntu + beryl Rock!- oracleofmist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2its not beryl, its compiz-fusion now. beryl has merged back with compiz, but yeah the team rocks
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Erg. Trevino should include amd64 builds of compiz-fusion!
- phaed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1keep dreaming
- aywwts4, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I personally haven't used a desktop like this, but it seems to be the direction all the GUIs are going.
But how does this increase productivity, how is this better than say... being able to hover over the standard linux virtual desktops and get previews, or just quickly clicking between the four of them. I mean, other than from a Gwiz standpoint.- 13thMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3There's lots of very configurable shortcuts and mouse actions that allow you to, for example, move windows to new desktops, tab and group windows, get live thumbnails of windows, switch between/view apps on all/one desktop etc. I find myself trying to do it on my Windows and my old Linux box that doesn't support compiz/beryl - my mouse has to travel a lot further on those PCs.
Plus some of the effects are nice to look at (though you'll find you'll probably turn some of them off after half an hour and never use them again). Best thing you can do is play with it for half an hour to see what it can do.
- 13thMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3There's lots of very configurable shortcuts and mouse actions that allow you to, for example, move windows to new desktops, tab and group windows, get live thumbnails of windows, switch between/view apps on all/one desktop etc. I find myself trying to do it on my Windows and my old Linux box that doesn't support compiz/beryl - my mouse has to travel a lot further on those PCs.
- Nitrius, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0How is the game support with linux and wine/cedega(or what its called)?
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Its never going to be as simple as running a game on windows. However for people who don't want to use windows its an option. You can't play any game out the box (some not at all) but there is a good selection of games. I would say that it makes game choice better than that on Mac ( I know thats not saying much)
As Linux is gaining more and more market share, I hope that in the next year or two, it will become standard for developers to either release a Linux version or to work with Cedega/wine to make running their game on Linux nice and simple.
If your a 100% gamer stick with Windows. But as time goes by more and more people will find that Linux is an option.
Linux on the desktop has moved forward MUVH faster than XP to Vista. I believe soon the difference will be small- init100, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"Its never going to be as simple as running a game on windows."
Never say never. Never is a very long time.
- init100, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"Its never going to be as simple as running a game on windows."
- Nitrius, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Okay, because yea, i like to play games a lot.
I've tried Linux distro's before, and linux is a great OS, only thing which are stopping me from converting to linux for good is the games.
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Its never going to be as simple as running a game on windows. However for people who don't want to use windows its an option. You can't play any game out the box (some not at all) but there is a good selection of games. I would say that it makes game choice better than that on Mac ( I know thats not saying much)
- decipherd, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3now just make it as easy to install and use daily as windows and you've got me..
- custerfluck, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9One of the best things about GNU/Linux is you don't have to install daily like windows.
- k4rr4s, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0its getting there decipherd...its getting there...
This time next year, things will be different. - VIR3NT, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Obviously this guy hasn't tried linux lately, its much easier to install, only takes about 15-20 mins for ubuntu, and is very easy to use. Much easier than windows since you don't have to go out finding a browser, chat client, firewall, antivirus software, etc.
- init100, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually, Fedora 7 is easier to install than Windows, and really easy to use after install too. None of the things that usually required manual fiddling (Wireless network, Compiz, suspend and hibernate) required fiddling this time, all worked out of the box.
- google01103, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8What's amazing here isn't that Compiz is a great productivity enhancer but that it can be run an just about any recent computer (and older) with an integrated graphics processor and 64mb of shared memory whereas Vista needs (per the press and Dell's website) 2 gb ram, 256mb video card and a fast processor.
- PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I run Vista with Aero with a super cheap GeForce6200, 512MB of RAM and an Athlon64 3500+.
I swear to science that i'm not making this up, it runs just fine, it's not lightning fast but it's not slower or less responsive than Windows XP.- StealthTomato, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Why swear to science?
It's as fallible as man, no matter what you say about precision.
- StealthTomato, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Why swear to science?
- TritonX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@Puesi
Some of us don't tolerate "not lightning fast". Imagine back in 95 if I had told you the spec of your current computer, you would have laughed your ass off if I told you that it would run windows "just fine, not lightning fast".
- PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I run Vista with Aero with a super cheap GeForce6200, 512MB of RAM and an Athlon64 3500+.
- colincornaby, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2I would be jealous, but Mac OS X has the same power. Now if Wine could just run all the rest of my games, I wouldn't have to use Boot Camp. :)
- BurrItsCold, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Except Mac sucks.
- StealthTomato, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Hear hear!
- BurrItsCold, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Except Mac sucks.
- ptFoe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The Expose plugin a bloody awesome it is so easy to manage your workspaces.
It looks so damn sexy too.- webcrumb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Shhh! It's not Exposé... it's Scale.
I love the way Fusion already has the main selling features of Leopard's UI. Scale+Expo really is nice. - StealthTomato, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Reminds me of how Compiz had the main selling features of Vista.
Feelin' the burn yet, fanboys?
- webcrumb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Shhh! It's not Exposé... it's Scale.
- CrazyZ, on 10/11/2007, -11/+2Is anybody else REALLY sick of seeing these dumb ass videos of spinning cubes etc.? Yaaaa, my desktop spins like a cube, Yaaa!
- 0owh0r5xzs, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0True, the cube sucks ass. But then again what did you expect? A movie about lions?
- 35263526, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Spinning cube _is_ sorta useless (well, actually I know someone who disagrees...), but I'm firmly of the opinion that if you don't think it's cool just because it's a spinning desktop cube then you're not a real geek.
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The cube is just one of the more flash plugins. It makes Compiz Fusion stand out. However there are many many plugins that while not as flash really help improve my productivity.
- init100, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4If you are sick of them, why watch the videos? Oh I see, so that you can troll afterwards about how how sick of them you are.
- scoobe, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Well pin a rose on your nose!!
Seriously, this is yet another "wow look what Linux+whateverelseIcaninstall can do." What you people who make these stories don't realize is this isn't THE POWER OF COMPIZ, etc. it's the power of OpenGL! E.g. look at the similarity between Mac OS effects and these, and the fact that OS X has had effects with processors years before the Pentium D and Geforce 7 series...- SatNav, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Linux Envy?
- 35263526, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3Er... Hate to break it to you, but Quartz Extreme (the thing that does those cool effects in a usable fashion) needs a GPU to run; in fact, it's my understanding that without hacking, it won't even let you do it with a PCI GPU, even if the card itself is capable.
Plus, as good a job as OS 10 does, it doesn't have anywhere near the level of customisability or the number of plugins as Compiz/Beryl/Fusion. - scoobe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Hardly since it's freely available ;)
- noots, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2does anybody know of a linux-live CD with this pre-installed?
i know sabayon used to have beryl pre-loaded, but that distro looks like crap now (black etc). It would be excellent to get one so i can test on my laptop to see if it will actually work.- crownedgriffin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Mandriva One
- init100, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Try the Fedora 7 live CD. I tried it on my laptop, and Compiz worked out of the box. The laptop even has an ATI card (Radeon Mobility X600). If you have a lot of RAM (>1 GiB), you can load the entire disc into RAM and have everything run blazingly fast. You can even install additional packages like e.g. Beryl, although they will be gone when you reboot (since it is a live CD).
- xspinkickx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I just need the state plugin and the dual cubes instead of the octagon for us dual monitor users before I will switch, though I really wish I can switch from beryl to compiz-fusion. Compiz-fusion just feels a lot faster, and smoother.
- thecheatah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Not for me.
Like scrolling up and down with firefox, my computer lags with compiz. With beryl, it scrolls as if I was using kwin. I guess some people get lucky and others have to wait. I am still running compiz though. I have to get used to it since beryl will no longer be continued.
- thecheatah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Not for me.
- bladus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3This must be great when you're at work and your boss doesn't know about multiple virtual desktops.
OOo here, CS there... :) - Cherubim, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Is this supposed to be new ?
I've been using Ubuntu + Beryl for quite a while now. Admittedly it's nice to have desktop effects but they don't really help with productivity that much. - aots4e, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0when i try to blog this with my Blogger i get a message that says: error form blog. how do i fix this?
- thedaemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I am waiting for any one of these things to work whilst I run Maya 8.5..... anyone gotten them to work well together?
- ruskie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0First video that i like. Others are to repetetive and weird. (rockmusic and stuff) =)
- Cimlite, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Is there any kind of LiveCD that I could run just to check out Compiz Fusion?
If not, why? That to me would be the ultimate way to promote linux.- mrmacky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Ubuntu Feisty has Compiz on it, not sure it'll run off the live CD, and it isn't Fusion.
Seriously though, Live CD's will hog up all your ram, you'll never get the full experience if you don't install it on a spare hard drive ;) - arapidsfan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Currently, You should try out Sabyon Linux. In is a live CD distro that works with beryl. Compiz Fusion in new and recently merged. So, I know of no live cds currently. But, expect this to change. As projects such as sabayon ubdate.
- kewlito, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Mandriva has compiz + matisse on it's live cd.
- TritonX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1.
- mrmacky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Ubuntu Feisty has Compiz on it, not sure it'll run off the live CD, and it isn't Fusion.
- carl25, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2no offense but. Cs 1.6 ? yeaaa that's not demanding at all and he wasn't even playing the game. It was a demo vid playing.
Still think some of that stuff is cool though- shrewduser, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1well no matter how awesome linux is, i have my limits, and i can't play the game while zooming around showing off fusion... the idea behind it running a demo was that it required all the CPU and graphical power of actually playing the game...
the resolution was 1280x1024 btw... the game, the desktop and the screen capture software was recording at that resolution, and the google video resolution does not do it justice... it is higher resolution than high definition TV and flawless frame rates... :) - thecheatah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1btw my computer is about 4-5 years old. I can run compiz and sauerbraten (http://sauerbraten.org/screenshots.html) at about 150 fps. I upgraded my vid card a few months ago but thats about it.
- shrewduser, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1well no matter how awesome linux is, i have my limits, and i can't play the game while zooming around showing off fusion... the idea behind it running a demo was that it required all the CPU and graphical power of actually playing the game...
- sark666, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What screen capture app was used to make the screencast?
- jluquette, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0My guess is that it's beryl-vidcap. The first post on this page has a reply mentioning a "video-record" plugin--but I've had zero luck googling combinations of compiz/video-record and beryl/video-record.
Beryl-vidcap, however, looks pretty promising. I've tried using xvidcap to record gameplay that runs very well under WINE, but xvidcap drops my system (with a 7900-series card) to a crawl. Hopefully it can offer the sort of hardware acceleration that's advertised by windows programs like FRAPS, so I can finally drop this stupid windows partition and do all of my gaming stuff from Linux.
- jluquette, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0My guess is that it's beryl-vidcap. The first post on this page has a reply mentioning a "video-record" plugin--but I've had zero luck googling combinations of compiz/video-record and beryl/video-record.
- mrmacky, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I just installed Compiz Fusion. Although these videos are getting a bit old, Compiz Fusion really does add a lot of new stuff, and I like the new control panel as compared to Beryl's.
- syko21, on 10/22/2007, -5/+1compiz fusion exists, can we keep it off the front page now??
- Derrekito, on 10/22/2007, -1/+2hurry up and write a better program. then get back to us.
- jlebrech, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I can do something similar with World of Warcraft, Compiz Fusion, mocp and a Virtualbox (but compiz fusion does render the window, so ill switch to qemu) the problem is slight stuner when spinning the cube.
My spec is AMD64 3200+, 1.5gb ram, GF7100. I'll need a slight upgrade. but can wait as all i play is WoW and music. - agisten, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1For gaming rig, author specs are very modest. the fancy name - compiz fusion is nothing but XGL engine (using OpenGL to process Desktop FX) currently heavy supported by Novell
- wontstoptalking, on 10/22/2007, -3/+2I tried to install ubuntu and it ruined my computer :(. It formatted my harddrive during the install, Windows XP Media Center included. Now the only os i have is ubuntu, and it sucks besides the stupid little animations. Photoshop is gone! My music I paid for! AHH! I don't even have a back up cd!
- TritonX, on 10/22/2007, -0/+5Nice, you learned a lots of things at once. You should be thankful to Ubuntu ;).
- gavintlgold, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5You chose the wrong option :) You chose the option to completely erase all data....
- phaed, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3You meant to say you forgot to read the screen, started clicking around haphazardly, and inadvertently erased my hard-drive didn't you?
- phenolholic, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3someone that pays for music, runs xp media center, and refers to a hardware powered window handler that sits on X11 as "stupid little animations" shouldnt have the balls to install ubuntu until he learns a thing or two about his OS with the "stupid little animation" launcher dubbed 'xp media center''
- phaed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There is a small section of the population that is so incompetent they should not be given complete power over their system. These people, left to their own devices would, time-permitting end up destroing whatever they get their hands on. You sir should buy a Mac.
- phenolholic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Small section? A smaller section are those that are competent. Generally speaking, I think everyone is incompetent.
- TritonX, on 10/22/2007, -0/+5Nice, you learned a lots of things at once. You should be thankful to Ubuntu ;).
- Prefix, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1What distro is this?
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