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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Kororaa XGL LiveCD gets Impressive A+

I’m floored by how impressive this Kororaa Gentoo/XGL Live CD is. The clean, Apple-style theme, and polished Gnome setup is very nice all the way through. This LiveCD came out so fast after XGL’s release that I expected a “kinda working”, “buggy” implementation. It’s far from that. I’m able to use all (I think) XGL features and best of all - it’s fast as can be. Now I know it was just me screwing something up when I saw terrible KDE/XGL performance on my Gentoo setup… I’ll have to figure out what I did wrong.

For now though, XGL is very impressive eye candy. Not sure there’s any real… say productivity gain… but it definitely makes it more fun to use multiple workspaces on Linux. One thing I will have to figure out is if we can put different backgrounds on each of the cube faces. First I’ll have to get it working properly. More to come now that I know it was just my error ;-)