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Beryl Not as fluffy as Av! Location: Germany Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like Uncle Beryl \| \|	So pretty... (ATTN: Linux People RE:Beryl) < on 3/16/2007 12:54 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM http://youtube.com/watch?v=KYze9ENFNNI http://youtube.com/watch?v=i0ZtcxHUSDQ "Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users... Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration." So pretty... Nice name, too. Watch the vieos; if you haven't heard of this project, you'll be very impressed. ALSO HELLO
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Xanadu Location: Las Vegas NV Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \|	Re: So pretty... (ATTN: Linux People RE:Beryl) < Reply # 1 on 3/16/2007 7:00 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	meh, I use it from time to time, it is okay, but my computer is not powerful enough to run it well.
	"Hey Fat Dave. <--Period"

seany Location: Santa Clara, California, USA Gender: Male Total Likes: 17 likes \| \| \| \| \| \|	Re: So pretty... (ATTN: Linux People RE:Beryl) < Reply # 2 on 3/21/2007 7:46 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	i don't understand the fascination with fancy gui's. I use ubuntu, and OSx and i find myself running the barest WM i can find. Even on osx i've started using some X applications because i can't stand the stupid gui bubble gum effects.... </rant> um... it looks neat :-p

Beryl

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Posted by seany
i don't understand the fascination with fancy gui's. I use ubuntu, and OSx and i find myself running the barest WM i can find. Even on osx i've started using some X applications because i can't stand the stupid gui bubble gum effects....

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um... it looks neat :-p

If you have the graphics hardware for it already, it doesn't use any system resources and just makes things prettier.

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