Compiz – An interesting history

Posted on February 8, 2009 by smspillaz

Many Forks, Many mergers

Many Forks, Many mergers

Update: @ Saleel V, you’re awesome!

Many Forks, Many mergers

Does this remind you of something

(Note: This took me two minutes, feel free to ask me for the .svg and make it better :P )

(Also, the ‘compiz’ logo by graphreak is tentative. We may or may not use it)

Update: By popular demand, the old image was an eyesore, but you can get it by following this….

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24 Responses

  1. OasisGames, on February 8th, 2009 at 2:39 pm Said:

    Those arrows are hideous.

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  2. delfick, on February 8th, 2009 at 3:49 pm Said:

    hmmmm
    Quote : feel free to ask me [to] make it better

    ok, please make it better :)

    Reply
  3. OasisGames, on February 8th, 2009 at 4:21 pm Said:

    Just noticed this: You stretched the new logo. It looks fat :(

    Reply
  4. Roy Schestowitz, on February 8th, 2009 at 5:20 pm Said:

    That’s a BRILLIANT chart. Thanks for that.

    Reply
  5. Michael White, on February 8th, 2009 at 9:21 pm Said:

    Send me the logos and I will do it using graphviz.

    mikewhite314@gmail.com

    Reply
  7. Compiz：有趣的Fork/Merge历史 | Linux桌面中文网, on February 9th, 2009 at 12:25 pm Said:

    [...] 扩展阅读：http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/compiz-an-interesting-history/ [...]

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  8. Compiz: una interesante historia de fusiones y bifurcaciones | JoltivanNet, on February 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm Said:

    [...] SmSpillaz publicó en su blog un post titulado Compiz, an interesting history, con una imagen que describe las bifurcaciones y variantes que ha habido en el proyecto Compiz [...]

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  9. Compiz: una interesante historia de fusiones y bifurcaciones | Windows Seven 7, on February 9th, 2009 at 4:25 pm Said:

    [...] SmSpillaz publicó en su blog un post titulado Compiz, an interesting history, con una imagen que describe las bifurcaciones y variantes que ha habido en el proyecto Compiz [...]

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  10. Resumen de la historia de Compiz | Sumolari.com, on February 9th, 2009 at 6:33 pm Said:

    [...] Genbeta descubro un breve resumen de la historia de Compiz, llena de separaciones, uniones y [...]

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  11. La evolución de Compiz, on February 9th, 2009 at 6:48 pm Said:

    [...] Compiz ha tenido, como afirma SmSpillaz (uno de los máximos responsables de esta maravilla) en su blog, una historia interesante. Últimamente se ha hablado de la fusión de los principales proyectos y [...]

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  13. Compiz: una interesante historia de fusiones y bifurcaciones « Tecnologia, Actualidad,y mucho mas…., on February 10th, 2009 at 9:25 am Said:

    [...] 10, 2009 at 9:25 am (Linux) (Compiz) SmSpillaz publicó en su blog un post titulado Compiz, an interesting history, con una imagen que describe las bifurcaciones y variantes que ha habido en el proyecto Compiz [...]

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  14. Compiz: una interesante historia de fusiones y bifurcaciones « Miguelthepooh’s Blog, on February 10th, 2009 at 9:59 am Said:

    [...] SmSpillaz publicó en su blog un post titulado Compiz, an interesting history, con una imagen que describe las bifurcaciones y variantes que ha habido en el proyecto Compiz [...]

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  16. El blog de Marvin & familia » Blog Archive » Compiz Fusion: Una interesante historia de fusiones y bifurcaciones - GNU/Linux para principiantes y mucho más…, on February 11th, 2009 at 3:54 am Said:

    [...] SmSpillaz publicó en su blog un post titulado Compiz, an interesting history, con una imagen que describe las bifurcaciones y variantes que ha habido en el proyecto Compiz [...]

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  17. smspillaz, on February 11th, 2009 at 6:50 am Said:

    @Saleel V: You are awesome!

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  18. La historia de Compiz « Gabuntu, on February 12th, 2009 at 4:27 am Said:

    [...] Visto en Smspillaz [...]

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  19. Compiz - Una historia interesante, on February 13th, 2009 at 6:00 am Said:

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  20. Linux-OS » Compiz, una historia interesante, on February 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am Said:

    [...] publicó en su blog un post titulado Compiz, an interesting history, con una imagen que describe las bifurcaciones y variantes que ha habido en el proyecto Compiz [...]

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  21. Compiz, una historia interesante « ZdeS - Zona de Sistemas, on February 13th, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said:

    [...] publicó en su blog un post titulado Compiz, an interesting history, con una imagen que describe las bifurcaciones y variantes que ha habido en el proyecto Compiz [...]

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  22. Compiz, una historia interesante « El Saber Sin Límites, on February 13th, 2009 at 3:25 pm Said:

    [...] publicó en su blog un post titulado Compiz, an interesting history, con una imagen que describe las bifurcaciones y variantes que ha habido en el proyecto Compiz [...]

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  24. beryl021, on May 15th, 2009 at 2:26 am Said:

    Wake up all at Compiz as Beryl is alive and kicking !

    You might be interested that over a weekend a mate and myself introduced Beryl back in to the fold. This is a direct result of our frustration of how bloated Compiz has become and is becoming more of a fashion thing rather than functional for having multiple desktops.
    OK so I have been using Ubuntu 7.04 on and off for a couple of years now and Beryl comes as default. After Ubuntu 7.04 Compiz Fusion (now Compiz) came as default. To begin with this was not a problem but as Compiz became more complex with spheres, globes and other useless features, performance was becoming impaired.
    Late one night I started looking at introducing Beryl to Ubuntu 9.04 (Alpha 6). As expected there were numerous depedendency issues.
    Piratesmack looked in to the same possibilty and together we pooled our resources and after running many scripts and testing by myself Piratesmack compiled some dependency free deb. packages.

    Piratesmacks Beryl 0.2.1 deb. packages for Ubuntu 9.04
    http://files.filefront.com/beryl+fixed+904tarbz2/;13596520;/fileinfo.html

    Save to home directory

    extract tar.bz2

    cd beryl-fixed-9.04

    sudo ./install.sh

    Piratesmacks Beryl 0.2.1 deb. packages for Ubuntu/Mint
    http://files.filefront.com/beryl+packages+021tarbz2/;13508777;/fileinfo.html

    Save to home directory

    extract tar.bz2

    cd beryl-packages-0.2.1

    sudo dpkg -i *.deb

    Beryl 0.2.1 on Ubuntu 9.04
    http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/Linux_Ubuntu_geek/?action=view&current=Screenshot.png

    Beryl 0.2.1 on Mint 6
    http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/Linux_Ubuntu_geek/?action=view&current=Screenshot-1.png

    One thing you cannot do is knock the simplicity of Beryl and how much more useful it is than modern day Compiz.

    So for those who wish to mock I say Beryl is far from dead and people want it as they are downloading it for the very reasons I have outlined above.

    LUg.

    Reply

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