I’ve been playing around with Granular Linux for the last week, and I must say that I kind of like it. I’m not sure if its going to replace the standard PCLOS install that I’ve been using or not. I decided to use a capture application called recordMyDesktop and convert the resulting ogg theora file to mpeg with FFmpeg, so that I could upload it to YouTube for all to see what its like running a full screen video capture while running Beryl on KDE. I just set the effects to random and let it go. Check it out:
The URL to the video is here if you don’t see the video embedded. I used these tools on my Pentium 3 machine with 512MB RAM. It has an Radeon 9550 256MB video card and a slow hard drive controller. Most of the time, these captures are done on really fast machines. I thought that it’d be neat to see a few of the neat things that you can do with Beryl.
Actually, Beryl runs quite smoothly and rotating the cube of desktops is pretty slick. The KBFX menu was a neato add on that the Live CD had and anybody can enable it, but the normal Mandriva way of doing the menu comes out first on the hard drive install. Trying to capture a full screen raw video did push this machine a bit too hard, though.
Is there a trophy for biggest Geek? I’m sure there is some sort of Geek Blogger Award some place. I’m sure there is.
I will award you with it as soon as I find it!
Post related, I see you’re really into the eye candy aren’t you. Doesn’t all that extra eye candy cost in system requirements?
Thanks for the video Corey! I agree, your machine was being taxed big time! And I agree with you John. I’m so cheap that even on my AMD64 3500+ processor
I run a simple window manager. I need to give everything over to my N64 emulator! hahaha
Actually, I’m not really into the eye candy, but most people are. part of why I do this is to show what else there is out there for the people who are tired of
BSODsWindows. Also, I’ve never tried to play with video screen captures before, so it was a fun challenge to get it to work at all.Devin…check your inbox
I admit that I am a bit of a technical person, Mac (as do you when you’re not busy ensuring that a certain group will never buy a song from you again - I know, drunk…). But a trophy for being the most? I don’t even come close. I’m just a hack.