well, for looking cool, you've got OSX with all its widgets and the fancy dock, and live previews and all that, and now vista is out with its gadgets and pretty colours and blah blah blah...

but i'm playing, with this...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ8IIyikhkc[/media]

and what's better, it's live on DVD and Live on CD too in a mini version.

and available for 64bit and 32bit.

of course the best thing about it, is the cost.

F.A.

the Distro is called SABAYON and the program that makes it look pretty, is called BERYL. it's a pack that can be run on many distros of linux, but the great thing about sabayon, is that it comes ready loaded and all up and running, with a whole load of other tools too. including quake 4 demos and suchlike (not tried them yet but i'm hoping to soon)

i've downloaded the 64bit and 32bit versions of the DVD edition, versions 2.65 and 3.1 of the 64bit and 3.3 of the 32bit. it autoconfigures itself, sets up almost everything itself. the installer is a bit crazy, but i'm mostly just using it as a live on dvd. got a bit more to learn about it but im hoping i'll get my way round it soon.

of course this is just one video and style of what Beryl on linux distros can be like. as with any good linux os, you can make it look like whatever you want, and you can download themes and skins from the net that anyone has made. so, here's some more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawkc3jH3ws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmDRYw6UUNE <-- dual display span

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYgV2GlsufI < --- on ubuntu, animated matrix styles, flame close/open windows, pretty snazzy for matrix lovers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLrj-SlnUw


of course, theres loads of extra plugins to make it do more cool stuff, i havent discovered them all yet. but its alot of fun in all. if you wanna show off your snazzy computer to someone, what better way?

it runs great on my machine - Sempron64 3100+ 1G ddr400, 256mb gainward nvidia Geforce FX5600

not all that great really. i've seen people on tube saying theyre using 1800+ athlons and suchlike.

i reccomend looking into it. if not just for fun.