"On Tuesday, January 25th Mandriva introduced a new project: Metisse LiveCD. In this article we are going to investigate the features offered by this promising project and see if Metisse can compete with the popular desktops in terms of ergonomics and ease of use."
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Member since:2006-10-08
Not to disagree or anything but allow me to quote from the article.
"Metisse does not require a 3d-accellerated desktop to work. It is not necessary to have a supercomputer to use it. Metisse performs reasonably even on elderly computers."
Ah... elderly computers, such as Intel Celeron with 3.2 GHz and 1024 MB RAM and ATI Radeon GPU. :-)
I'll give it a try on some systems (from 300 to 2000 MHz with various ATI and nVidia GPUs) and see how it performs.
Metisse can get a good promoter for Linux on the desktop (such as KDE 4 surely will be), because people like eye candy, spinning windows, flipping, clipping and puppies and dancing elephants. :-)
Member since:2005-11-05
Metisse is layered ontop of the root window much like Xgl is an x server layered ontop of an X server. By design, this is a *BAD* idea. I went through the hoops and compiled a copy of metisse on my Ubuntu box.
Not too bad and it has some nifty features, but it seems slow. The idea is cool, but (in my own personal opinion) this isn't all that impressive as it doesn't use things like composite which fundamentally limit it.
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2006-02-04
Not to disagree or anything but allow me to quote from the article.
"Metisse does not require a 3d-accellerated desktop to work. It is not necessary to have a supercomputer to use it. Metisse performs reasonably even on elderly computers."