What's up with Graphics on Linux?

Confused about what is going on with graphics on Linux? Read the history of the complete process and where it stands today. Especially check out the part about SUN Looking Glass 3D Desktop.

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ShrinkTo5 Nice Open Source DVDShrink replacement

ShrinkTo5 has been developed as a cross-platform engine available for free for anyone. To ensure a fast spreading to other platforms ShrinkTo5 is distributed as open-source. Still in development and it's open.

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Starry Night 1.5 Gigapixel Image!

This image is a photomosaic of the famous painting 'Starry Night'. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images.

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Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide

Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide

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MIT "Hacks"

I find these *incredibly* amusing, and I think you will too. I spent about 2 and a half hours this afternoon going through these and laughing my ass off. Take a peek...

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How To Look Like A UNIX/LINUX Guru

This is your survival guide to UNIX/LINUX, once you go bash you wont go back.

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A GOOD First Person Shooter at only 100kb!

Finally a firs person shooter with pretty good graphics that is so small it can be installed on a floppy! -1.5GHz -512MB RAM -GFX card supporting pixel shaders 1.3, 128MB or more of VRAM. - Some kind of sound hardware - DirectX 9.0b Now if only Unreal Tournament 2004 took tips from these guys instead of making a 6 cd installer :P

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Super $500 MythTV Project

Speaking of MythTV (You were, weren't you?) here's a guy documenting the building of his MythTV box, running Gentoo and costing under $500. Cool stuff!

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Star Wars Combine - Massive Online Multiplayer RPG

The Combine is a free massively multiplayer online role-playing simulation game based on the Star Wars Universe, developed by amateurs in their spare time.

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MediaPortal - Windows alternative to MythTV

Want to try MythTV but don't have an extra PC sitting around to install Linux on? Try MediaPortal instead. It runs on Windows and is open source freeware.

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Open Office 2.0 Kicks MS Office Around the Block

If you tried the previous 1.1.4 version, the 2.0 beta version currently available will be a pleasant surprise. Unlike the slow, ugly, and underpowered earlier version, 2.0 is swift, smooth, and highly compatible with Office documents. Even better, it has plenty of features that you can't find in MS Office itself.

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Automated custom machine shop with online ordering

eMachineShop is the remarkable new way to get the custom parts you need - the first true online machine shop. Download our free software, draw your part, and click to order - it's easy! Your part will be machined and delivered - at low cost. This Rocks! read more | digg story

Hacking a McDonalds Sign

This was too funny not to share!

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Beastie Boys release their acapellas to the world

The Beastie Boys have released some of their acapellas to the worlds remixers and musicians free of charge on their website. They'll continue to release a new one every Friday.

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Why women live longer than men

The following photos show conclusively why it is that women tend to live longer than men.

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Army mechanic builds 18 ft. Mech

Carlos Owens, an Army mechanic has been building something strange in his backyard... a huge anime-looking, $20,000, exoskeleton!

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4999 Company Logos From All Over The World

A free site with a collection of nearly 5000 company logos.

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"The" Solution to high gas prices

$3.00 a Gallon is a bit much, this incredible device will save you thousands. $$$

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Fossil and Atari Animated Watches: Wearable Classic Gaming Design!

Hey all you gamers out there, check out these cool new Atari game inspired watches from innovative watchmaker Fossil. Classic Atari games like Asteroids, Breakout and Centipede will animate in the background of the watch face. Pretty cool idea and they look great, but unfortunately the games are not playable.

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Blizzard not developing Diablo or Starcraft sequels

Fans of Blizzard will be disappointed to hear that a company PR coordinator has ruled out any chance that the "unannounced product" that the company has been working on will be a sequel to either Diablo II or Starcraft, long term franchises for which the company is famous and which still attract a strong following today.

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