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Compiz/Beryl merger is officialCompiz/Beryl merger is officialPosted Apr 10, 2007 2:41 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Compiz/Beryl merger is official by Sutoka Parent article: Compiz/Beryl merger is official
Compiz is specificly designed for plugins.
That's why it was so nutty to fork Beryl in the first place. Pretty much every single thing they wanted to do could easily be done through plugins for compiz. There was no need for the fork in the first place, it was almost 100% ego driven.
Also Dave Reveman knows his stuff. If him and anybody from Beryl disagrees you can know that 95% he will be right.
He is _THE_ major architect behind not only Compiz, but XGL and X.org related technologies, glitz (OpenGL driven Xrender replacement) and a lot of other things that will help move Linux over to a pure 3D interface.
The parent may not like Novell for the patent disaster, but it's foolish to dismiss the contributions they've made to Linux desktop usability.
You ever use Ubuntu?
Notice how Gnome and apps are more easier to use?
Do you think that Ubuntu had anything to do with that besides packaging upstream software?
That's all Novell. The developers working for them are behind much of the push for improvement in Linux desktop.
They aren't responsable for all of it. We have Redhat and X.org to thank for things like Kernel improvements and AIGLX, but Novell is still _very_ significant.
People may not like it, but it is what it is.
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Compiz/Beryl merger is official Posted Apr 10, 2007 6:47 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] Notice how you have network-manager?
Compiz/Beryl merger is official Posted Apr 10, 2007 12:45 UTC (Tue) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link] WHAT? A piece of software with BUGS? Nooooo! :o
Compiz/Beryl merger is official Posted Apr 10, 2007 7:46 UTC (Tue) by Burgundavia (subscriber, #25172) [Link] Network-manager was started by Red Hat, Novell had netapplet. However, Novell decided to work on a single project rather than two. It is actually a good example of how two companies can work together if they let their engineers talk amongst each other. Another win for Open Source
Compiz/Beryl merger is official Posted Apr 12, 2007 10:29 UTC (Thu) by hadess (subscriber, #24252) [Link] > Notice how you have network-manager?[..] > That's all Novell. [...]
Not really. NetworkManager was started some years ago by Red Hat...
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