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[pete]

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This project brings a professional workstation environment to the Linux Community. The name of the game is high performance Desktop environment with simplicity! So if you need stable 3D graphics performance, advanced features like overlay planes, robust sound system, leading edge 3D APIs support (OpenGL, Open Inventor, OpenGL Performer and many more) or simply an UNIX Desktop that doesn't slow you down, then IMD for Linux is the right choice.

IMD for Linux also focus on High Performance Computing (cluster environment) by providing a nice integration with Performance-Co Pilot and Advance Clustering Environment for Linux.

IMD for Linux is going much further that those *Themes that simulates IRIX look and feel. IMD for Linux is the IRIX Interactive Desktop rebuilt from scratch on Linux using today's technologies and SGI's Desktop as guideline. IMD for Linux has it own window manager that looks, behaves and provides the same features found on an IRIX box. Motif has been revised and optimized to give a true SGI Motif look and feel. New Motif Widget specific to SGI (a.k.a Sgm) will be provides for source code compatibility between the two environments. Yes, IRIX based applications could be ported to Linux with very little changes. IMD for Linux offers a similar Interactive Desktop Environment where applications like toolchest, iconcatalog, fm and many others made SGI's Desktop Technology so famous.

more and dl
http://www.5dwm.org/

screenshots

http://www.5dwm.org/...nshots.html#top







some irixfeeling for tha desktop

Edited by pete, 06 July 2003 - 02:29 PM.

[Scott]

Looks pretty gross to me. Might try it out sometime if i'm bored though.

[Sinbad]

Wow, that looks great for coders and/or game devolopers..

Neat looking, thanks. ;)

[Betaguy9000]

naah, i'm happy with xpde.

Edited by Betaguy9000, 05 July 2003 - 12:07 AM.

[Sinbad]

Betaguy9000, on Jul 4 2003, 19:07, said:

naah, i'm happy with xpde.

Whoa.. I need to try that....

[pete]

Betaguy9000, on Jul 5 2003, 00:07, said:

naah, i'm happy with xpde.

naah , no windowsfeeling on my tuxbox :lick:

[kala]

This looks like a gui from the 80s. Terrible!

[pete]

kaladara, on Jul 5 2003, 14:18, said:

This looks like a gui from the 80s. Terrible!

well u r right . irix was released 1987 , its wm is 4dwm and its toolkit is motif . its 64bit, has the xfs filesystem and its interface hasnt changed that much since then .
the os is used on these sgi machines for opengl applications and filmanimations .
i installed the beta and enjoyed the irixfeeling very much(ok gui is ugly ), though its full of bugs .

two of these sgi machines

octane




fuel

Edited by pete, 05 July 2003 - 05:36 PM.

[Sinbad]

Dunno if its just me, but I kinda like the old school looking GUI.

[pete]

Sinbad, on Jul 5 2003, 17:35, said:

Dunno if its just me, but I kinda like the old school looking GUI.

me too

[DJP]

Even this GUI looks better.

[Betaz]

Okay, first, indigo is pretty neat, not something you would actually wanna use. But its nice to see other people trying to do something. XPDE, that is the stupidest, crappiest, most idiotic thing in the world. Why the hell do I want my perfectly good unix box looking like windows?!?!?!??!?!

[pete]

DJP, on Jul 6 2003, 00:08, said:

Even this GUI looks better.