Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Compiz Gets Thumbs-Up for Gutsy Gibbon

Posted by Zonk on from the cheeky-monkey dept.

Da Chronic writes "After a vigorous debate at the last Ubuntu Technical Board meeting, the board decided to ship Ubuntu 7.10 with Compiz enabled by default. The decision was made despite the fact that Compiz still has some significant issues relating to drivers and Xorg. 'For instance, there are some problems — like accelerated video playback issues with Intel drivers — that can only be resolved by using the EXA accelerated rendering framework which is still not ready yet. When asked why Intel isn't addressing the driver issue, technical board member Mathew Garrett explained that "Intel are working on the basis that composited desktops won't be ready for rolling out until EXA is stable enough anyway, so it's not a concern [for them].' In the end, all but one member voted to include Compiz in Gutsy."

8 of 303 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What's worrying me... by everphilski · · Score: 5, Funny

    What name will they use for the release that comes after the "zesty zebra" release?!?

    anonymous anorexic anacondas

  2. Re:Compiz is...? by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's like Beryl. Hope that helps! ; )

    --

    "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz

  3. Re:Compiz is...? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is simply unacceptable behavior for a Slashdot reader. You never admit that you were wrong, and you certainly never apologize. Next time, reply with something like "The article was Slashdotted, you insensitive clod!"

    I'll forgive you this time, though.

  4. Re:i for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    > welcome our gusty gisbo overlords.

    We set AC up with the perfect opportunity for a Goatse Gibbon, or a Gutsy Goatse, or a Goatse's Guts, and he swings and misses.

    *sigh*

  5. General public by general_public · · Score: 5, Funny

    general public is not going to buy into this.

    Actually I love Ubuntu and am looking forward to upgrading to Gutsy when it comes out.

    --
    Ye olde Webmaster Forums - since 1998!
  6. s/compiz/kwin/ by DreadSpoon · · Score: 4, Funny

    You realize that Kwin is including all of the 3D graphical foofah in new versions, right? Compiz is a WM that you can swap out with Metacity (or anything else) whenever you want, but your desktop is coming with the special effects built-in to the default window manager.

    Thankfully, you're using KDE, so you'll have at least 8 checkboxes to disable it. ;)

  7. Re:View from the bottom by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    They won't care about bloat until they are running their own network.

    Or until they find it in one of the hookers you mentioned.

    --

    --
    "Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
  8. PureEyeSugar by Nosklo · · Score: 5, Funny

    OOOOOHHH!!! My Eyes! They have Diabetis now! Too much candy!!

    --
    find -name "*base*" -exec chown us {} \; ; ln -s /dev/zero /dev/chance ; make time