youtube.com — Akamaru is a simple, but fun, physics engine prototype. It is amazing to use, and easy to install. One more reason to forget Windows Vista, embrace Open Source, and use Ubuntu or Fedora (among other non-Micro$u$e distros).
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nosferatooNov 13, 2006
Useless programming masturbation
almadielNov 13, 2006
Oh my, the ability to throw icons around... What have I been doing with my life? I should stop using any Microsoft products immediately or be condemned to a life of meaningless static icons. Can the peurile open source rhetoric, this has nothing to do with MS vs Linux. Anyone could make such a program for any OS.
sarcasticjerkNov 13, 2006
Have you any idea how many useless ideas come from Apple? Tons! That's part of the development process. Bad ideas get trashed while good ideas make it into the final product. Often, good parts from bad ideas get integrated into final products.The only difference here is that Open Source is transparent so you see the invention phase close-up and see all the bad ideas.
vindstilleNov 13, 2006
Really nice. Someone will develop this further to something a little more useful.
mbeauchezNov 13, 2006
What SEMW says is fud, Beryl (AIGLX & XGL) also run on the graphics card, not on the CPU. That's what the whole hype right now is about, hardware accelerated effects, not CPU done effects, that could be done years ago already with xcompmgr.
kaffieneNov 14, 2006
That's utterly stupid.
semwNov 22, 2006
@mbeauchez, I've just looked around a bit more, and you're right; XGL does use the graphics card -- but is still strictly 2D (source:<a class="user" href="http://principe.homelinux.net/).">http://principe.homelinux.net/).</a> WDM is 3D-accelerated, which is why it requires a newish graphics card, wheras XGL doesn't. Whether you think that's a good idea or not is, obviously, disputed; but to claim that it does no more than XGL is, to use your phrase, "just FUD".