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Re:Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend by cyphar on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:39PM (#18660953)
> but work on Compiz started AFTER Aero was shown.

I'm not sure it's necessarily true they started development after Aero. They released it 8 months later. Did it only take 8 months for the first release?

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Re:Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend by dijit on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @12:47AM (#18661655)
The author also omits beryl, which was the real beginning of compiz.
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Re:Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend by cpuguy83 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @01:00AM (#18661691)
Maybe my history is fuzzy, but I seem to recall beryl being a fork of compiz which eventually came back into the fold.
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Re:Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend by dijit on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:01AM (#18662170)
Actually. It was my history that was fuzzy, according to Wikipedia you’re right.
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