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Happy New Year? Yeah... I'm a wee bit late.

That's what's nice about beryl compared to compiz. With beryl, you can disable everything but dropshadows, or everything but the spinning cube... or just everything if you want so that you desktop is just rendered by your GPU and not your CPU.  You can choose exactly what effects you want, when you want them to happen (there are like 10 diff. effects for opening or closing a window, ranging from simply fading in, or the exploding fire and smoke), all via a really nicely made GUI manager. Also,  the beryl manager runs in the system tray next to the volume control (it's the little gem looking thing) so that you can switch back to metacity (or whatever) in one click. It is also very easy to get to the theme manager and the settings manager via the system tray thinger. Beryl is also setup so that if it crashes it automatically reloads metacity.

onlinebacon: In gnome w/ metacity w/ one terminal open running top, I am using 124mb of ram.  When I initialize beryl, it goes upto 160mb of ram... so really, considering what it does it barely uses any system memory.  I assume most of its work is stored in the GPU's memory.

So for the geeky people, I just got AIGLX, Xorg 7.2, and Beryl working on my FreeBSD 6.1 system.

It is absolutely fantastic, it looks amazing, is pretty stable, and totally beats anything vista will have or mac has currently.

Enjoy the purty pictures! All pictures have real-time shading/glowing/transparency. aka... I can put a transparent window over a movie and it renders the movie behind it. My whole desktop is rendered in 3d with this and it is amazing... and actually runs faster than 2d because my CPU doesn't really do anything now.... all the desktop rendering is diverted to my Geforce 5900.

Alt-tab produces this:

Changing Desktops moves them around on a cube, which can be controlled 100% like the user (not just a 3d animation like os X. It is fully rendered here. ) I can move wherever I want rotating around the cube.... oh yeah.. see that WRC rally video that I dragged between the two desktops? It is seemlessly playing while I am chilling between the two desktops!!

Of course there is Expose (mac osx) like stuff where pressing a button shows all my windows equally along the screen. They are still being rendered in full real time (note: the WRC rally video is still playing! seamlessly!) Upong selecting a window brings it in focus and to the front. All widows wobble upon returning

When a window requires your attention, it creates water ripples and vibrates. AKA, someone messenging me on GAIM, or a terminal window requiring my input!

Moving windows around makes them wobble, shake stretch and skew... again, notice how that while I am doing all of this the video is still perfectly playing at 30fps.

Although, I do have a rather beastly machine... I installed this on a Dell laptop Pentium M 1.6 w/ radeon 9000 mobility w/ 32mb of ram. Everything runs perfectly smooth! Note: We installed vista rc2 on that laptop and even without the special vista effects (vista wouldn't let us run the special effects on it claiming it was "too slow") vista was unbearably slow the hardrive was constatly churning and just sitting on the desktop CPU usage was around 50%.  Under Ubuntu and all this eyecandy, CPU usage is around 4%.  While frantically spinning the cube trying to crash Beryl, cpu usage never went about 75% and everything still ran very smoothly. Perhaps the programmers in redmond should take some advice from programmers who can do better in their free time

These screen shots just don't do this justice. Everything is so pretty, opening windows Zoom in, closing windows Zoom out, minimizing windows makes them spin around and down into the taskbar, bringing them up creates a "Beaming UP" effect. All of which is customizable. I could set it so that when I exit a program it burns up in flames and smoke very  cool

Anywho... opensource wins

Edit: Here are the flaming windows and beaming up...

A terminal "burning up"

My firefox window being "beamed up"

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Pictures aren't showing up karpet.

That is a pretty sweet laptop! I dunno if you have owned an IBM before, but i had a t41 before it became owned by lenovo. Do you think their quality has gone down? up? or stayed the same since the change over to lenovo?

i wonder what the rpm dependencies are for a P-8A...

I really want to see some pictures here! Heh.

What BSD do you plan on putting on it?

I am doing the finish touchs on a CMS for a client.  It was definitely a fair share of work, and I can see where you are coming from about the community differences with PHP.  But, because there is a set exact way of doing stuff in Rails... does it take more time to memorize the order of code?

Also, the code is kept all server-side as in PHP correct?

Beagle support would be neat to have...

Like asemi said, better binary support would be nice. Better web development environment.... although I haven't spent much time with the F|OSS options...

For the most part I am pretty happy with my freebsd system. I would write down native java... but...

Jage, I have been doing some research on Ruby On Rails for alittle while. Seems pretty interesting. I do a lot of PHP, MySQL stuff.

What made you decide to use Ruby on rails? How does it perform? Do you have any links to sites you have made with it?

I have already invested so much time into PHP and MySQL i dunno if I want to bother learning something else.