3D desktops
They are determined it seems to bring about the post-WIMP era. WIMP is the geek term for the modern desktop environment that we use today. (W)indows, (I)cons, (M)enus, and (P)ointers. For those old timers that can remember the DOS 3.0 and even earlier days of the little dog running to get your documents, you know that the desktop has come along way since the IBM CLI (Command Line Interface) days of glory: 1960's - 1980's. IBM OS/2 lead the way, even gave Bill Gates and Paul Allen their start. I doubt IBM knew they were helping to create the Gaint Microsoft that would dominate the, not only desktop market but also server and software market for close to thirty years now.
We've all heard about Linux by now. If you haven't, I'm not sure how to help you crawl out from under the rock but here . Linux, though Bill Gates doesn't thank so is a rapidly growing Operating System -it has been rated many times as the fastest growing OS of any. But the thing that has always been messing is at Gates said in his interview: "You always have to do something very dramatic to move things up to the next level. Who has the guts and the willingness to do risk-taking to get ink into the standard user interface?" Linux has never been the development platform for an entirely new way of thinking about how a computer works. To answer you question Gates: Linux has the guts. Welcome to the future of your desktop. No more flat plain windows.
Looking Glass was created by Hideya Kawahara at Sun Microsystems and later licensed under the GPL. Meaning that all source code must now and forever remain available. This to developers means that they can easily design new application for the software and use the per-existing code for designing their own desktop. Alan Kay (the creator of the WIMP) desktop has started his own 3d environment . It seems that not only is the desktop being reinvented, but Linux has finally made its mark as being not only a powerful Operating System, but also a development platform for new technology.
TTFN
Zymosius
We've all heard about Linux by now. If you haven't, I'm not sure how to help you crawl out from under the rock but here . Linux, though Bill Gates doesn't thank so is a rapidly growing Operating System -it has been rated many times as the fastest growing OS of any. But the thing that has always been messing is at Gates said in his interview: "You always have to do something very dramatic to move things up to the next level. Who has the guts and the willingness to do risk-taking to get ink into the standard user interface?" Linux has never been the development platform for an entirely new way of thinking about how a computer works. To answer you question Gates: Linux has the guts. Welcome to the future of your desktop. No more flat plain windows.
Looking Glass was created by Hideya Kawahara at Sun Microsystems and later licensed under the GPL. Meaning that all source code must now and forever remain available. This to developers means that they can easily design new application for the software and use the per-existing code for designing their own desktop. Alan Kay (the creator of the WIMP) desktop has started his own 3d environment . It seems that not only is the desktop being reinvented, but Linux has finally made its mark as being not only a powerful Operating System, but also a development platform for new technology.
TTFN
Zymosius
posted by zymosius at 11:29 AM
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Well, I doubt the 3D views of Looking Glass or anything Linux does is going to dispel the rule of MS... especially not with a just simple 3D GUIs since MS has a 3D interface (talks and coding thus far) for their next OS tentatively called "MS Longhorn" which is supposed to be everything to all people. (doubtful)
I must say though, I have been a "penguin" user on and off for a few years now but always switch back to MS (and sometimes OSX) for 99% of what I do simply because, well, it is like an old beat up pair of shoes... sometimes ya just need something comfy and familiar.
Linux is one of those things that becomes an aquired taste over time. I went through 4 different flavours before settling on suse.
Longhorn? Longwait more like it. They moved the release date on that a half-a-million times. I've seen screenshots and it looks nice, but with Twisler (XP's beta version) the GUI was all fancy and released as the blue XP we know.
It's a long wait either way we look at it. But at least something better is in sight.
zy
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