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		cyphar on Dec 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend > 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?

dijit on Dec 12, 2018 [–]

The author also omits beryl, which was the real beginning of compiz.

cpuguy83 on Dec 12, 2018 | [–]

Maybe my history is fuzzy, but I seem to recall beryl being a fork of compiz which eventually came back into the fold.

dijit on Dec 12, 2018 | | [–]

Actually. It was my history that was fuzzy, according to Wikipedia you’re right.

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