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A Look at the Compiz and Beryl Merger

invisibastard writes to mention that Linux Tech Daily has an editorial on the merger between Compiz and Beryl. "This state of affairs was a shame. Something that was finally getting the general public excited about Linux, the 3D desktop, was wasting time with duplication of effort and fighting. There were concerns about the long term viability of Beryl. The perception in the community overall was, Compiz = old and stale, Beryl = fresh and exciting. This despite the feeling in the Compiz community that the "real work" was being done by David Reveman and Compiz, and there were exciting things with Compiz core (like input redirection, etc...) on the horizon."

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  1. Frosty piss! by PurifyYourMind · · Score: 0, Troll

    Chilly urine is all I have to contribute to this story.

  2. Re:Leopard by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Troll

    It all may be a bit irrelevant when Mac OS X 10.5 comes out...
    Not as long as Macs are still overpriced compared to PCs.
    --
    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
  3. Attention Windows Clickarounds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah i'm talking to you. The wannabe computer programmer who thinks they are good at computers because they can click around the computer enough times and find the reboot button and 'fix' an inherently flawed windows system. You think you're cool because you can pirate photoshop but not know anything about it, get Microsoft Office for free but have the literacy of a 1st grader when writing a paper, and get a copy of Norton Anti-virus because your inherently flawed system is useless without Administrative privileges. Get a clue, you are not smart, you are just a corporate sheep for a company that will bury you if you ever tried to write any software that did anything remotely useful. You are a clickaround and all you know if your ugly gray existence that is Windows.

    Want the sourcecode to windows vista?

    head -n 1000000 /dev/random > Windows.com

  4. Re:BSD Merger. by T-Ranger · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, I'd like to see peace on earth, good will towards man, and get a blow job tonight. But none of those things have to do with this article. Well, burning windows may get me a blow job. But only when they work without crashing.

  5. boring... by fattmatt · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sounds like the Linux community is in turmoil ... wasn't it just a few months back Eric Raymond announced he is switching distros??? could at least one of the three serious "Linux as a dekstop" users chime in here? What is going on ...?