Metisse
Written on Feb 19, 2007 // Linux.
The current big thing in linux land is Beryl, offering a luvly 3D desktop experience vaguely similar to but way sjweeter than Os X.
But now there seems to be a new kid on the block in the form of Mandriva’s Metisse. After seeing the demo vids I’m definitely going to give their LiveCD a go next week or so. It’s way beyond anything Beryl can do at the moment, if not as polished. Interesting times.
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Travis
Feb 19, 2007, 7:25How resource intensive is it? How does it compare to windows vista?
XIII
Feb 19, 2007, 9:36I haven’t tried Matisse yet, but if it’s anything compared to Beryl it’ll run peachy on even 5 year old graphics cards. So you get a much bigger bang for your buck in terms of hardware compared to Vista, which is sluggish on everything but the latest generation cards.
Corvo
Feb 19, 2007, 10:55From what I’ve read… Metisse should run better on older gfx-cards then Beryl/Compiz does.
Could be, dunno myself, that Metisse is actually 2D accelerated instead of 3D, which is easier to find on even older gfx-cards.
I believe that Metisse is GPL’ed (or somesuch license mumbo-jumbo) and could become available in other distro’s aswell.
Hopefully stuff from Metisse finds it’s way into Beryl *crosses fingers*
XIII
Feb 19, 2007, 13:45Hmm, that’s good news for me because my new server only has a Matrox Millennium. This could give me some eyecandy after all then, because Beryl doesn’t work on it.
*crosses fingers as well*
Since when are you into Linux?
Corvo
Feb 19, 2007, 14:51I’m reading up a lot on linux, and specifically Ubuntu.
And that’s about a month now. Installed Ubuntu on my laptop - and really liked it.
I’m currently in the somewhat difficult process of installing Ubuntu on my desktop/file-server.
If I didn’t game anymore, I’d even ditch Windows completely *grin*.
Anyhoos, I just wanted to try Linux again and I really like the way Ubuntu handles packages (I know, yay for Debian).
Finding out there was something like Beryl, completely made me boo at Vista.
XIII
Feb 19, 2007, 14:58Sjweet, Feisty or older? I’m currently toying with Feisty on the new machine, and if all works I’m switching my main desktop over as well.
There are a lot of ways to get your windows games to work under linux as well these days…
Corvo
Feb 19, 2007, 15:08I’m using Edgy. I take it upgrading to Feisty won’t be that hard.
Allthough, considering how close we are to april.. The latest herd should be stable, I assume.
Anyways, I know of Cedega and the likes. But in the end, Windows games play best on Windows ;-)
XIII
Feb 19, 2007, 23:56I’m betting on things like Xen and VirtualBox to fulfill my needs in that area.
As for the upgrade… keep your fingers crossed, I’m not sure it’ll be that easy. A few core mechanisms have changed quite fundamentally, the first upgrade tests went tits up. And Drake>Edgy wasn’t exactly smooth sailing either.
Corvo
Feb 19, 2007, 12:15Thanks for the info on the upgrades!
I assume upgrading from ‘Herd to herd’ and ‘Herd to 7.04′ is going to be less bumpy/possible?
Anyways, luckily I haven’t installed Edgy yet (FakeRAID sucks) and will download and install herd-4 tonight (hopefully on a 3Ware hardware raid controller).
XIII
Feb 19, 2007, 13:30Yeah, the herdes are just milestones within the update cycle. So you don’t even have to do anything to go from herd 3 to 4 for example, and when the final gets released you only have to edit the repositories.
Good luck with the hardware raid!
Corvo
Feb 19, 2007, 11:48The hardware raid works superb. And Feisty’s herd4 works too (not on my laptop though).
Would like some quick advice though: Use LVM or not?
XIII
Feb 19, 2007, 13:11It can be handy if you want to expand volumes later by adding drives to the LVM.