I recently installed the new fancy-schmancy Apple Quartz inspired XGL rendering system that you may have been hearing about on my Ubuntu laptop. Even more recently, I captured a little video showing off what all XGL is capable of, and I now share it with you. At times it may appear choppy, but that’s due mostly to it being difficult to use a trackpad with a camera in the way.
Please ignore my cat’s incessant meowing, and my close-to-the-camera thumb that keeps appearing in the bottom of the screen, looking very much like a penis. I swear it is just my thumb :)
In case the embedding doesn’t work properly, you can Click Here to download.
Well, just so you don’t go formatting your drive and install expecting to see that, I gotta point out that that fancy stuff is not installed by default.
It is very much a work in progress, only supports a few video cards and is a real hassle to set up. Not that that should deter you from Ubuntu, but I just don’t want anyone to be disappointed :)
The author lives in Vancouver, Washington, USA with his girlfriend and a menagerie of cats, rats, fish, birds, guinea pigs and robots.
Among other inanities, he strives to use investigative techniques to work young starlet breasts into every aspect of rational discourse — focusing on the discourse, thus making it not perverted. Also, has recently begun a career as “Internet hairstylist.”
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