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MaXXdesktop Frameworks CI/CD Software Architecture Building MaXX Interactive Desktop on FreeBSD Recently Updated Pages Ubuntu Guide (x86_64) This Installation Guide will allow you to install the MaXXdesktop on an Ubuntu Linux Distribution... RHEL/Rocky 8.x and 9.x Guide (x86_64) This Installation Guide will allow you to install the MaXXdesktop on a RedHat and Rocky Linux Dis... POST installation / Companion Applications Note: Commands and package names are from a RHEL/Rocky distribution. Translate to your fav. d... November 21st 2024 - Release Day for MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (aka Octane) Alpha-1 Personal Message First, I want to extend my gratitude to all of you out there who are supportin... Welcome to MaXX Interactive Desktop New Release Available Now >> Release information << MaXX Interactive Desktop is the little ... BSD 3-Clause License This license applies for all new code under the MaXX Interactive Desktop Project. The code is ava... Manjaro/Arch Linux - Guide (x64) - untested and not complete yet. This Installation Guide will allow you to install the MaXXdesktop on a Manjaro Arch Linux Distrib... Debian Guide (x64) - untested and not complete yet. This Installation Guide will allow you to install the MaXXdesktop on a Debian Linux Distribution ... Who the heck is Eric Masson? Who am I? Proud father of four, married for over 29 year, and grand dad of three Canadian... Not just a theme... Here's the breakdown of what makes The MaXX Interactive Desktop a true successor of the great IRI... Frequently Asked Questions 1. Who is behind this? The MaXX Interactive Desktop, also known as MaXXdesktop, is an all volunt... Contacting Us How to contact or reach us Main Website https://maxxinteractive.com Facebook Page https://... Recent Activity Eric Masson Eric Masson updated page Ubuntu Guide (x86_64) 2 hours ago Eric Masson Eric Masson updated page RHEL/Rocky 8.x and 9.x Guide (x86_64) 2 hours ago Peter Kovar Peter Kovar updated page POST installation / Companion Applications 8 hours ago Eric Masson Eric Masson updated page November 21st 2024 - Release Day for MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (aka Octane) Alpha-1 8 hours ago Eric Masson Eric Masson updated page Welcome to MaXX Interactive Desktop 8 hours ago Eric Masson Eric Masson updated page November 21st 2024 - Release Day for MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (aka Octane) Alpha-1 1 day ago Eric Masson Eric Masson updated page BSD 3-Clause License 1 day ago Peter Kovar Peter Kovar updated page November 21st 2024 - Release Day for MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (aka Octane) Alpha-1 1 day ago Welcome to MaXX Interactive Desktop New Release Available Now >> Release information << --------------------------------------------------------------------- MaXX Interactive Desktop is the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX MaXXdesktop-Octane-alpha-1.png MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (alpha) running in Modern Look & Feel with Indigo Magic SGI Scheme (4K @120Hz) Introduction The MaXX Interactive Desktop a.k.a. MaXXdesktop is the continuation of the 5Dwm project released many years back. So don't be mistaken, there is only one real re-implementation of the IRIX Interactive Desktop found on SGI systems, and it's MaXXdesktop! MaXXdesktop is a true re-implementation of the "SGI Desktop" with the added benefits of using a modern software stack of highly tuned loosely-coupled components delivering maximum performance and stability while using as little resources as possible. We believe that high performance computing and energy friendly are not mutually exclusive. What if you could run applications in a smarter, greener and sustainable way? MaXXdesktop aims at improving just that, do more with less. While respecting the original retro CLASSIC SGI look and feel, which is very important for us to get it right, we created a newer and more modern user experience called the MODERN look that feels like a natural evolution of the original SGI look, as if SGI did it themselves throughout the years perfecting an already pretty awesome recipe. The MODERN look still supports SGI Colour Schemes but introduce Unicode and UTF-8 support, anti-aliased font rendering, more hardware acceleration and a new virtual-desktop manager. The user can switch between looks with one mouse-click, now that's cool. Goals and Features List We believe in the need of a highly tuned workstation environment where performance, robustness, low resources consumption are at the core of everything. Here are the goals we want to achieve and features that makes a great modern desktop: * Lean, very fast and robust. Basically MaXXdesktop gets out of your way. * Smart and efficient multi-cores workload management with CPU and Core partitioning which help reduce process bouncing of CPU cores and computation resources allocation/partitioning translate in better throughput (MaXXscope). * Built on solid and time proven foundations. * Desktop Applications are distributed as self contained AppImages. * Provides a robust modern and high performance asynchronous multi-threaded messaging sub-system (with Shared Memory support and Zero copy principle for local communications) for fast and efficient inter-processes communications (MaXXlinks). * Based on a modular micro-services like architecture that allow decentralization of core desktop services as we rapidly moving toward containerization for better security. * Modern Configuration Management sub-system with both a command line interface (CLI) or C/C++/Java API for easy application integration (MaXXsettings). * Highly focused on facilitating quick and easy access to your content with fast content previewers right from the file-manager. * Leverage hardware acceleration and optimization for CPU and GPU. * Centralized system monitoring sub-system (MaXXmonitor). * HiDPI supports for X/Motif applications and easy presets control for applications. * Much needed Motif^TM face-lift and modernization of the ViewKit framework with new modern components that are fully integrated with all MaXX Desktop sub-systems. * Developer friendly software development environment with integration to CLion, Intelli-J and PyCharm IDEs from Jetbrains which translate into building better and faster applications. * To support multiple CPU architectures (x86, Arm64 and RISC-V) * To run on multiple OS: Linux, FreeBSD and Windows11 WSL2. * To provide a source code compatibility for IRIX visual applications. >> More details on what MaXXdesktop is made of +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |software-1024x683.jpeg|software-development.jpg|documentation.jpg| |----------------------+------------------------+-----------------| |Installation Guides |MaXXdesktop Development |Documentation | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ Our Mission More for your creativity. Our mission is to bring back this great user experience which focused on performance, stability and productivity while sporting a smooth-clean-minimalism look and feel with low-resources consumption. A smart and green Desktop that puts the user's application in the forefront. We believe in a High Performance Desktop Environment that provides the right set of tools to maximize creativity and productivity without sacrificing your system resources to some eye candy nonsense. Again, less is more... And it keeps you focused. From the Ground Up Our design philosophy is simple, do more with less... The MaXXdesktop is designed from the ground up for speed, fast/ responsive, lightweight/simplicity over eye-candidness, but more importantly, to get the heck out of your way... The name MaXX Interactive doesn't mean maximum visual interaction, which are distractions or so what we call, UI noises. It's means maximum creativity with interactive assistance from the Desktop. In many ways, it's made for you and your brain so that it can relax, focus on let the creative juice flowing with far fewer distractions. We see desktop notifications in a very different way, but this is for another discussion. In short, the MaXXdesktop let you focus on the creative tasks ahead without interference or visual distractions. Experience Matters Our team is sharing the same vision of making use of the right set of technologies with industry proven best practices and guidelines to build the right software, the right way. We aim at providing a consistent and pleasant user experience built on top of modern and stable foundations. Every good and useful piece of tech deserves to be future-proof and this is where several decades of experience in building battle-proven mission critical systems for high performance Enterprise class applications comes in. If it's architect-ed properly, it can evolve without breaking apart! Is MaXX Desktop for you? MaXXdesktop's typical users are old IRIX users/sysadmins, Computer Graphics Artists, Motion Pictures and Special Effects Studios, Software/Game Developers, Visualization/Simulation, Virtual Reality power-users or Oil and Gas research to name a few. MaXXdesktop is also for anyone who wants get a break from all the surrounding noises and create stuff while sporting a very unique/cool daily driver. If it is the case, then MaXX is for you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Navigation This site is powered by BookStack (a type of Wiki engine) and you can navigate it by using the upper-right links 'Shelves and Books'. 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