rudd-o.com — What does Beryl do? Beryl is a window manager — it’s a program in charge of drawing window borders on your computer screen. You’ll probably be saying to yourself Window borders? Isn’t that idiotic or a job for the operating system?. In Linux-land, it isn’t, because everything is modular.
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dayyveApr 29, 2007
"I?m 24 years old, transgendered, lesbian, and single." WTF is that for real or a joke? If that's real then I have to give the dude props for having the (haha) balls to so readily admit it. Kudos. (I use XP, don't know much about the Linux community outside of Linus and Stallman.)Sidenote: Beryl looks pretty - but doesn't it take quite a performance hit to run it? What would be the lowest vid card you could use to run it? (I have an old ATI 9800 PRO AGP system I'm thinking about playing around with)
dilibauApr 29, 2007
great...another beryl related nyuuz reaching the main page... I'll start hating my feisty fawn if I see anymo' of these...by now, I can thank digg for promoting the linux OS in general and beryl in particular (with all the useful how-2s) but come on... this is too much
rambleApr 29, 2007
I don't see the point in being trans-gender and lesbian.
enderthethirdApr 29, 2007
I had the same setup but ended up getting a GF 7600GS because I hated losing 3D accelerated apps (like Google Earth) while running XGL. Still, Beryl *CAN* be run with those ATI cards. It just might involve a little extra work depending on what applications you want to run.
stevemaxApr 30, 2007
Yes, it does. I run both Beryl and Compiz on Geforce 4 MX4000s, and both feel quite snappy (Compiz feels snappier, though)
jdmulloyApr 30, 2007
You think the beryl stories are too much. Most of the time half of the stories in the linux/unix section are Ubuntu related.
freakokalamMay 9, 2007
Would a system using a 3.2Ghz P4 processor, 1GB RAM, and an ATI Radeon X550 card have any trouble with Beryl?
jrandywMay 9, 2007
@jdmulloyAgreed."Ubuntu now being used by my neighbor!" 4849 diggsNote: I am an Ubuntu user, at least on some of my computers.