Sun’s 3D Desktop project “Looking Glass” features a new way to handle icons, folder-windows and applications on a screen: Instead of just displaying them in two dimensions above each other, windows can be turn to the side.
The software runs at the moment in Java and is available for Linux and Solaris, where it shall work [...]

Searching the most fitting linux application to write texts, burn cds or paint pictures, the website linuxappfinder helps out. The site lists programs ordered by categories and also compares different software for specific tasks to each other.