Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Feb 2006 18:37 UTC, submitted by Fusion
"Novell is announcing its contribution of the Xgl graphics subsystem and the 'Compiz' compositing manager to the X.org project. These enhancements open up a whole world of hardware acceleration, fancy animation, separating hardware resolution from software resolution, and more. As a result, Linux desktops will become more usable, end-user productivity will increase, and Linux is firmly positioned at the forefront of client computing technology." Videos and screenshots are included in the press release. And on a related note, Dan Winship of Novell has explained on gnome-desktop-devel why Novell worked on all this behind closed doors-- and this also applies to the striking similarity between Novell's mockups from December and Nat Friedman's videos. The changes made to GNOME will all be released back.
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2006-02-08
< It is my understanding that you can switch from one to the other whenever you wish ..>
True, but that doesn't change the fact that Novell felt it necessary to resort to cathedral method for the work so far, which I am arguing reflects poorly on the bazaar method. Sure they qualified it as a special situation, but the qualification seems (to me) to apply to virtually all of software design.
I concede your point about the beta status.
You can have the last word.