Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Mar 2007 15:25 UTC, submitted by Shadowline
"Beryl 0.2.0 is a complete overhaul of Beryl. The last stable release (0.1) featured a very fun, and eye-candy based compositing window manager. However, since it's release, many parts of Beryl have been rewritten, replaced, or simply dropped. It's filled with eye-candy, better user support, new features, and stability."
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2006-03-12
"You should take a look at the beryl forums. It is full of new linux converts... The downside is that the vast majority of them are unable to get beryl working out of the, and noticeably frustrated as a result."
I hope this is not the case...but it would not surprise me. The move to a compositing window manager is painful, and has not been helped by proprietary drivers; experimental this and that; and a whole host of other things. The truth is getting a compositing window manager on Linux has been a hit and miss affair. For me it only went stable 3 weeks ago...and I'm not even sure what fixed my various problems, from white cubes, to restoring having a "delay", video playback is still not what I would like.
Beryl *is* one of the reasons to switch to Linux especially if you have an Intel laptop, but like much of the cutting edge stuff in Linux it takes time to be stable. Whether this will come about now after this release and Xorgs7.2 release, I don't know. I suspect it will for many. I suspect some with have to wait for Xorg7.3 in about 5 months or the release of open source NVidia drivers or AMD R500 and above drivers.
The reality is though. This is the best thing that has happened to Linux for a long time. Graphics Card Support has been a weak point in Linux for a long time, and suddenly there is a great deal of enthusiasm in this area. I think this will help Linux adoption in Long term.