On Friday 28 September 2007 09:00:52 pm leenix wrote:
I've been looking at Beryl and Now Compiz Fusion.
(Someone will no doubt correct me on this, but the general idea is:) Compiz was a SuSE project to out-eye-candy Vista. (From what little I've seen of Vista so far, Compiz is actually more like the next-gen Apple interface.) Because of the positive, contributing, community minded <choke, cough> attitude of the Novell team, a fork was started as an actual OSS project called Beryl. The progress made on this branch made the Novell team re-consider some of their hereditary corporate attitudes, and the Beryl team admitted they could use some resources. Beryl has re-merged with Compiz, hence the Fusion name. Some updates have been released but last I looked there was not a full, post-merger release available.
None of it will run on many current computers. With a lot of luck, a hot PC with a recent NVidia graphics card may do well. People with ATI cards have acquired entire new vocabularies, as have some NVidia owners. Intel and SGI need not apply - except sometimes, when the moon is just right.
It's unstable, alpha-grade software that will be the default desktop on the next release of most distros. Ain't support fun?