Make your Linux look like Vista

OMG! Beryl Rocks!

What is the Beryl Project?

Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and respond to the requests of the user base.

Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do. With Beryl the rather esoteric concept of the computer desktop is brought down to a more human level, allowing for a more native and intuitive understanding of your workspace. To learn more about Beryl and its features visit our Feature Spotlight.

Beryl is a fork of the Compiz project, started by David Reveman of Novell. We continue to port new changes from compiz, and consider them essentially our upstream. Beryl could not have existed were it not for the heavy lifting done both server side by David and in creating compiz, which is the base on which all of our code is built, and which still comprises a large portion of our code, though this is likely to change as the 0.3.0/0.4.0 release cycle gets started.

The video below is taken from YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9UF4FKzsMk

Beryl ROCKS! Big time!! who needs vista?! ^^

now why would I want my Linux to look like Vista? my Linux looks so much better

Fascinating tech from the way it looks, great stuff! I wish they focus more on the functional enhancement  of what MS Windows desktop has to offer not just enchancing it's eye candy UI. (IMO) 3d desktops arent' necessary that useful In most cases.

 

DexterZ++:

Fascinating tech from the way it looks, great stuff! I wish they focus more on the functional enhancement  of what MS Windows desktop has to offer not just enchancing it's eye candy UI. (IMO) 3d desktops arent' necessary that useful In most cases.

 

The UI of OpenSuse looks really close to Windows. Even the functionality of the Start Menu in Vista(the annoying collapsing menu) is also existent.

I think eye candies are good for decorative purpose... its like your elementary days when you have new pants and polo when the class opens every june... =) its only goon in the start but feels the same on any other day.

I've checked the Beryl FAQs and it's capability is also dependent on your computer's hardware. much more similar to vista.

patrick:

I've checked the Beryl FAQs and it's capability is also dependent on your computer's hardware. much more similar to vista.

My 1.4Ghz Celeron M, 256MB RAM w/ Intel 945GM Chipset laptop is running in ubuntu + beryl. Wala nga lang ako nung mga water effects di na kaya eh~ pero ung mga wiggly-wiggly ok lang naman. I just use Beryl pangpatangal ng inip.

For eXtra UI experience install gDesklets. ^^