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Old 01-04-2007, 11:34 AM   #1
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"AqD" <aquila.deus@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mar 2, 8:27 pm, "j1mb0jay" <j...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Kadaitcha Man wrote:
>> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6407419.stm

>>
>> Try installing Ubuntu with Beryl GUI. Much faster, better graphics so on
>> and
>> so on.

>
> beryl is a big buggy and not fully compliant with WM standards.
> Besides it has problems with a lot of drivers; for instance, with
> nvidia card it will give black window when running out of video memory
> (it can't use agp, dunno why). Also it consumes a lot of CPU, which
> should never be since GPU is supposed to do almost everything, and
> it's very slow when you have some 3d game running in another x server.
>
> 2D compositing is still a better choice for now.
>


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