Images: Linux's new eye candy

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Images: Linux’s new eye candy

By Bill Detwiler February 6, 2006, 1:00 PM PST billdetwiler

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Virtual cube — Images: Linux’s new eye candy

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Novell’s Xgl plug-in permits multiple virtual desktops in Linux to be displayed on the faces of a rotating cube.

Novell

Xgl software permits hardware acceleration of features such as window transparency.

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