Kororaa: Live Cd With Xgl. Stunning Graphics, A Must Have ! everyone NEEDS to see this.

http://getkororaa.com/

I was drawn to Kororaa live CD for two reasons...

1) Its based on Gentoo Linux (possably the greatest distro ever)
2) Its live CD runs Gnome with Compiz window manager ontop of Xgl !

Currently, Both windows and Linux use a standard desktop with your Card in 2D mode.
Xgl runs on-top of openGL, and everything is rendered in OpenGL 3D.

The result, is quite literally breath taking.

Everything is rndered in OpenGL,
Everything is beatufully anti-aliassed.

All windows, controls, popups fade in and out, and slide around yuor screed asif your monitors screen was an anti-stick frying pan, coated in hot lard.

The windows are made from some kind of jelly, when you grab a corner, and drag it, it distorys, stretchiing,and wobbling a little when you lt go..

Imagine draging a wafer thin piece of un-breakable jelly around the screen.

Apart from the beauty of it all, there are also some very VERY usefull features.

In the past, transparent windows were pretty, but useless, and made the desktop less easy to use.

but Compiz utilised this feature beautifully.

For example, holding alt fades all windows, and the wallpaper, and brings up a bar containing previews of all windows on your desktop, then pressing tab cycles through all differant windows, and makes the currently selected indow Opaque, and all other transparent.

releasing Alt brings the selected window to the front.. Pefect for cluttered desktops.

And if that doesnt float your boat... clutter up your desktop, and hit F12.

Each window is zoomed out...

not just shrinked, but zoomed, a full screen window will hold the same, but take up less of the screen.

all zoomed out windows are aranged nicely on your desktop.

clicking one of the zoomed out windows returns all windows to normal sizze and position, but with the selected window at the front.

And all of that is beautifullt animated, faded, slided, and jelly wobbled into place.

And the first time you switch desktops... Especially when the focused window is set to follow you as you scroll.... well... its great.

Ive spent literally the last 20 minutes just dragging windows, minimising and maximising.

and im still very very very amused !

If you have a supported graphics card, listed here http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

(basically, almost all ATI / Nvidia cards, and a few others)

Then download this Live CD, slap it in and boot it.

its a 400 meg download, but totally worth it.

Im even going to attempt in install on my Amd64 Gentoo hard drive install.

Go.. GO.. GOOO !

Man, you sold me completely. I'll be trying that the moment I get home and get the sucker downloaded. You're just making the few minutes more I'm stuck here at work all the more painful haha.Glad to see more initiative being taken as far as interfaces are concerned, let's get some fresh blood into the ring.

Man, you sold me completely. I'll be trying that the moment I get home and get the sucker downloaded. You're just making the few minutes more I'm stuck here at work all the more painful haha.
Glad to see more initiative being taken as far as interfaces are concerned, let's get some fresh blood into the ring.

My description doesnt even begin to cover the wongerfull ness that is the Jelly Wobble... LOL.
even the contens of the windows are warped and stretched.

running OpenGL screen savers, or glxGears (or even a DVD) in a window, and wobbling it about looks soo danm cool.

I dont have any Longhorn (or whatever its called now) Alpha tests... But ive read the reviews, and seen the screen shots.

And Xgl along with compiz seems to be far more impressive, and inovative than MS's new Desktop.

Windows and Linux are great a differant things, but in linux, the things that make it great have always been hiden away in the kernel, or somwhere else where you just cant SEE it.

Now, linux is gaining some eye candy, and user-friendly innovative features that windows just doesnt have.

We have all seen our mums looking fora web-page on a desktop with 15 differant IE's running,

To be able to just hit F12, and have a zoomer-out re-aranged set of windows,,, such a simple idea, but only just being used.




ANWAYS.. i said i was tring to get Xgl onto my normal install...

So far, ive un-masked Xorg-7.0-r1 ( X11R7 ), and even without Xgl working yet, plain old X11R7 is looking quite nice, i think the better anti-aliasing came from standard X rather than the Xgl

having a little trouble with xgl on the amd64, but i suppose i was just asking for it attempting to install ALPHA code with a tutorial intended for 32bit.

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAANOK I'm in it right now, you're right, this is freakin insane haha.I'm sooo setting up a core system using this as the GUI haha. Man I'd actually use multiple desktops if it looked THAT cool all the time switching them.Plus the overall style is just intense, thank you VERY much for pointing this out to me haha, I have to go play more now.