An anonymous commenter in a previous article pointed out that Suse 10.1 has 3D capabilities. The screenshot to the right shows this in action and it looks quite impressive with how it handles the multiple desktops. What if you want to see all of the desktops simultaneously? Simple, just hold down Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow and the cube will unfold itself to display all of the virtual desktops!
Some of the stuff I don’t know how they came up with the design. Pictured to the right you will see the Window Page Peel. This allows a user to peel back a corner of a page (like you do with a book) so that you can see what window is underneath it. Wow! It amazes me that someone was even able to think of doing that.
I currently have Suse 10.0 installed on one of my machines but it looks like I will be making an upgrade. If you aren’t yet convinced then check out the news source for some more screenshots and details of more features.
Download Suse Linux 10.1
News Source: Mad Penguin
Yes this was one of the cool features of 10.1 – although if you want to try it, you are better off downloading one of the XGL Live CD distros, which work out of the box (at least on NVidia).
After you try the Live CD you can decide whether the features are worth the very manual process of enabling this on Suse, which involves installing the proprietary NVidia drivers and manually editing your X config to use xgl rather then xorg.
If you arent an expert at x configuration, this might break your x config in some very difficult to fix ways that arent straightforward to rollback.
IMHO the features are cool but add no significant usability whatsoever, and likely nullify the powersaving features of my 3D card and perhaps CPU.