Quinn Storm Personally Discusses Beryl | Linux Today

Quinn Storm Personally Discusses Beryl

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 28, 2007

[ Thanks to Rudd-O
for this link. ]

“Today, we interviewed Quinn Storm, the initiator of the Beryl
project.

“What does Beryl do? For those of you who are only recently
entering our marvelous free software world, Beryl is a window
manager–it’s a program in charge of drawing window borders on your
computer screen. Now, 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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