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Compiz and Beryl rejoin as Compiz Fusion
Long, long ago on a Linux desktop far, far away a fork was driven between Compiz -- the three-dimensional composite desktop manager -- and Beryl -- the three-dimensional composite desktop manager with a desire for rapid change and development. Like star-crossed lovers, they knew that, one day, they'd be together again and, better for their time apart.
Ok, so it didn't happen exactly like that. Fortunately for all of us, they are getting back together and, with some stellar results. Several rewritten plugins, some sharp new features and a load of stability enhancements could make Compiz Fusion a strong contender against the commercially developed Vista and OS X 3D desktops which are rapidly gaining acceptance. Take a look at the screenshots of what could be headed to a modern Linux distro near you.
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
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rothgar said 6:52PM on 6-21-2007
I found a good video of it on digg today too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w
Looks great.
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stewlatin said 2:01PM on 7-02-2007
It is totally awesome! I am running it smoothly on a 256mb graphics card, 384mb of sdram and 800mhz processor!
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kvz said 12:01PM on 7-29-2007
I've written an easy how to on setting up Compiz-Fusion in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/enable_compizfusion_in_ubuntu_feisty/
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stephen_waner said 8:51PM on 9-18-2007
i there a graphics card or a software program that will invert the view to the true mirror image on the desktop screen, this would include the direction of all fonts as well as they would be formated from right to left as if viewed in a mirror, & elgooG is not the answer. as trying to read there site only gives me a migran. the reason for this is called Strephosymbolia , a visual disorder of which there is no cure for, whoever perfects it or already has this type of software would be of great intrest to me
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