I’ve been out of the Ubuntu/GNU/Linux community/forum scene for so long, I have no idea what’s been happening.
So Compiz has been forked into a project called Beryl. AIGLX, Redhat’s offering to accelerate graphics now works straight out of the box on Ubuntu Edgy.
I discovered this while playing with the Edgy LiveCD at work. I read several reviews, and watched more than a few YouTube videos.
The effects are just amazing.
I just had to give it a try.
In a lot of the reviews I read, I thought it was strange how the authors claimed that now GNU/Linux can match Windows (Vista I presume) and Max OSX for eye candy and looks.
Perhaps I just haven’t seen enough of what these other OS’es can do, because …
I’ve been using GNU/Linux for just over a year now, and in my opinion it has always been ahead of Windows/OSX in terms of eye candy. Even before Compiz/Beryl came about.
Just my opinion of course. Anyway …
Following the HOWTO from the Beryl project website, I was able to set things up in less than 15 minutes (I already had XGL).
I had to make some minor adjustments, for using XFCE, but minor being the operative word. Xubuntu uses the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) so setting up a custom XGL session was easy, and setting up Beryl to run over XFWM was not hard either.
I’ll try to go over it later, both for Dapper, and Edgy when I install it soon.
I don’t know where Compiz is at the moment, so I’ll wanna check that out too at some time, but for the moment I am just drooling at my the rain falling on my desktop, or my windows folding when they are shaded.
I also just love how many options there are to configure the behaviour.
This is just too cool!
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