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February 9, 2004
Article #12233
Volume 72, Issue 2
Features
 

"It's Java technology that is built on top of the standard windowing system."

-- Prem Domingo
 


Project Looking Glass Brings New Perspective to the Linux Desktop
Sun Develops 3-D Windowing Solution for Linux, Solaris Operating System


Sun is striving to bring something radically new to the open source desktop in the form of Project Looking Glass. First shown last month at LinuxWorld, Project Looking Glass offers a 3-D windowing capability to users that does not stack their windows one upon another and represent them with icons or buttons. Rather, solution, which works with both Linux and the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS), can display windows in a 3-D environment that can be manipulated as 3-D objects. [...read more...]

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