Xgl and Compiz
Today Novell announced Xgl and Compiz the new window manager and composition manager to go with it. Whilst this doesn’t sound particularly exciting to the uninitiated this things can do some pretty impressive stuff. Such as:
Miguel de Icaza the lead on the Gnome project and Novell employee blogs about it some more. There is also an official press release for the release of Xgl and Compiz to the open source X.org project. That’s right this stuff is all open source and all free! Woohoo.
February 14th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Yup, coolest thing on linux I’ve seen in a loooong time.
In fact, so cool that I broke all my promises to myself and checked out the CVS version and started compiling.
Already feeling sorry for myself as I wade through a massive list of dependencies. Should’ve waited for a package maintainer to put up some nice binaries. Oh well, back to the autogen.sh