Compiz and Beryl: Reunited

April 5, 2007 on 11:46 pm | In Linux |

Compiz and Beryl, two OpenGL-accelerated (compositing) window managers which split from each other over half a year ago have now officially reunited. Beryl was forked from Compiz for several reasons, partly because some of Compiz’s developers had different aims for the project and wanted to work on achieving those goals as well as possible.

The problem with forks is that the community is split and so the developers on both sides end up working on the same features independently, inevitably wasting time which could have been spent much more productively if the fork had never taken place. This is why I am so glad that Compiz and Beryl have decided to join forces - because they will finally be able to put their minds together and work on producing an excellent and even more aesthetically pleasing compositing window manager than they could ever have created by themselves.

Best of luck to them, and I look forward to upgrading Beryl 2.0 to the new, combined compositing window manager when it comes out!

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  1. Yeah, sometimes forks are unavoidable in the FOSS world, but they aren’t always a good thing. “Mergers” like this are rarer, but they do show that it’s not impossible that projects which split up can come back together and work to a common purpose.

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