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GNOME Shell No Longer Requires GPU Acceleration

Posted by timothy on from the mutter-mutter-mutter-harumph dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The GNOME 3.0 Shell with the Mutter window manager no longer requires GPU acceleration to work, while still retaining the compositing window manager and OpenGL support. GNOME Shell can now work entirely on the CPU using the LLVM compiler via the Gallium3D LLVMpipe driver. This will be another change to Fedora 17 to no longer depend upon the GNOME3 fall-back, which is expected to eventually be deprecated and further anger GNOME2 fans."

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  1. Re:GNOME is a study in how to not architect softwa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks for quoting the entire post to make your six-word response.

  2. Re:GNOME is a study in how to not architect softwa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for quoting the entire post to make your six-word response.

    Mod AC up hes his spot on...