If you weren’t able to attend Brainshare but are interested in seeing what the big N is up to, the keynote speech is online. Some topics discussed: Linux solving high performance problems, virtualization technologies via Xen, capabilities of the Linux desktop including transparency, graphics and animation effects and demos of mono applications doing amazing feats.
Wow, Beagle’s searching looks awesome.
The other apps they are putting together are getting the Linux desktop/app environment look and function and feel close to my mac.
Very impressive.
All the stuff they presented was cool, including Xen, Clustering, Mono, desktop stuff, and the Xgl server.
It looks like Winforms is progressing nicely. That satellite imaging app was pretty cool that was running winforms and running on windows, mac, and linux.
I need to compile that xgl server. Does anybody know if you need Nivida-style RenderAccel to get composite working properly, or since this all Gl, it works via textures and the normal composite features aren’t needed?
Some really neat stuff.
The speakers are sort of hard to sit through though… not as exciting as Steve Jobs.
the window transparency part reminded me of the microsoft’s presentation of this ‘technology’ for longhorn that i saw loooong time ago and still has not come out, yet linux has it now …
moving the window (wobble effect) while playing the movie is really cool … kind of a macos killer
not to mention the enerprise apps and features
yeah i know mac already has this, windows has that, solaris has that … but linux has those all in one
so the statement from the guy saying how linux caught on and even surpassed the competition(windows, macosx …) is a valid one indeed
The link to the video doesn’t seem to work anymore..
I’m not sure how wobbly windows is a Mac OSX killer. You probably don’t see wobbly windows in final release software because it adds nothing to usability and would probably be distracting in real life… all they are good for is as a tech demo. And the expose feature shown in the video is something I’ve been using for a year and a half now on 10.3, so it’s nothing groundbreaking at this point. This is all just compositing, which Linux is just now catching up to OSX with and Windows is still in the pre-Beta stages with.
What I think will be more interesting is comparing the capabilities of Cairo to CoreImage/CoreVideo/Quartz 2D Extreme which will be coming with the release of Tiger next month.
As for most of the cool mono apps, you must have missed where mono is running on OSX too, so it’s not like Linux now has something that the Mac doesn’t.
Doesn’t work here, either. Does anyone have a working link?
The link works fine.
They should hire Steve Jobs to do their presentation. These people are dull and look like they’re reading from scripts. IMO If some person doesn’t know his/her own stuff then that said person shouldn’t be on stage.
Guys, you just don’t get it. Wobbly Windows is the computing experience of the future, today. Nothing on Mac or Windows can compete. (-:
That was a great Keynote, showed some great stuff comming from Novell. 2005 is gonna be a good year!
You’re right, many of these people are dull to watch. Friedmann is lots of fun though, he actually makes the presentations funny and manages to make what he does extremely simple.
Xen is probably the coolest technology of them all, the part where they move a running video streaming server is pretty cool.
I watched all the keynotes, and I especially like the Small Business Suite. Someone must have been listening to me, as it blows every Microsoft equivalent out of the water. Every business quickly runs out of what they need with Windows, and they end up spending ridiculous amounts of time and money. The Novell Client for Linux was quite interesting.
The Mono, Hula and (unstable) XGl stuff that was bunged on the end is not where it’s at – the server stuff, Zenworks, SLES9/OES, Small Business stuff etc. is where it’s at, certainly for Novell. At one point Miguel had to tell us all that the simple thing he was demonstrating was ‘mind blowing’.
The stuff that’s in OES etc. is extremely good, top to bottom, from large data centres and clusters to small business systems. And there’s a lot in those small business solutions.
Wobbly Windows = Very Nice iCandy
I hate Windows, but to be fair, one must admit that “Wobbly Windows” have been demonstrated by Microsoft long (> 1 year) ago.
1) The work was done by RedHat (who Nat credited)
2) Windows doesn’t have it OpenGL accelerated
The thing they showed with XGL(shade and transparency) I do with Xorg in KDE 3.4. Not the desktop switching part, but that is possible in next KDE release for sure. Wait for KDE 4 in six months.
The wobbling window is there to just show the capabilities, it is not practical.
Ah, found it. The internationalisation part of the novell site is buggy. (how trust inspiring)
Set your language to english on the site, and you can watch the video.
Screenshot: Calculator Stretched (minimal processor usage) (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0509/k1_3.jpg)
Screenshot: Calculator Standalone (minimal processor usage) (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0509/k1_1.jpg)
Video: View window stretching video (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0509/k1_4.htm)
Video: View animation on top of the OS (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0509/k1_5.htm)
Video: View Picture slideshow in animation (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0509/k1_6.htm)
Video: View Windows doing the twist (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0509/k1_7.htm)
Screenshot: Confirmation of build 4015 (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0509/k1_8.jpg)
View: View Japanese site PC Watch (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0509/kaigai01.htm)
Why don’t they just put an mpg up or something? I can’t watch the video because it stops every 2 seconds for buffering. I’m really pissed.. not everyone has DSL or so..
Looks like they are having bandwidth problems. My connection is at about 25% usage while playing the video and it stops every 2 seconds too.
The wobbling window is there to just show the capabilities, it is not practical.
Not in its current state. But imagine how it could be used for dialogs. By making the dialog wobble out from whatever window that initiated it, the user would be more aware of what application that was trying to interact with him.
Not in its current state. But imagine how it could be used for dialogs. By making the dialog wobble out from whatever window that initiated it, the user would be more aware of what application that was trying to interact with him.
Kind of like sheets in OSX. Yes, it is a very cool, yet user-friendly way of presenting modal dialog behavior. I believe that Apple has a patent on them though.
I think if it was turned down it could be nice since it provides a very real response that make the windows, etc take on a more physical feel.
It would be interesting to see Apple go after Open source developers. I mean it’s their right I guess but they use so much stinkin open source at a point it would be really bad from a PR standpoint.
It’s not perfect but it works great and everyone has it. Very nice, wonder why it’s not more used.