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RIP Compiz

By Jack Wallen

“This is not 100% confirmed, but the news that Fedora is
dropping Compiz from release 17 can only mean one thing ? Compiz is
dead. Gentoo, openSUSE, GNOME, and a list of others had already
dropped Compiz, leaving only one distribution holding onto the
compositing software ? Ubuntu. That?s right, the little desktop
that could still uses Compiz as its compositor. There are also
plenty of outstanding bug reports whose issues, it seems, will
forever be unresolved. This all clangs out a death knell for the
compositor that really brought something to the Linux desktop that
no other had.

And, no matter how other feel about this, I am going to miss
Compiz.


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