Reply #8: In typical MS fashion ...

[RoyGBiv]

The features of Vista that MS is touting as so special to the general public by encouraging the spread of screenshots, i.e. the eye-candy, is essentially stolen work. Oh, they did it in-house, but the idea for it came out of a conference that resulted in the development of XGL and things like Compiz.

MS says Open Source is bad. Bad for their profit margins, yes, when the FOSS community develops an idea and distributes it for no charge, but they use the ideas that come out of the FOSS community regularly and then try to claim them as their own. Gates and company have been doing this since they first started.

That is cool, btw. The distro overall is lacking a lot, but it allows you to play with the XGL features very well. Since it is essentially pre-Alpha at this point, the lacking part is to be expected of course.