October 16th, 2006
XGL/Beryl
This past weekend, I tried out the latest Mandriva. I am a PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu fan, but I had tried getting XGL/Beryl working on Ubuntu and failed miserably. Therefore, I tried out Mandriva 2007. I was amazed at the capabilities of the new DE (Beryl) but was frustrated with the many little issues that I experienced with Mandriva (I will write a review of it in a few days), so I went back to Ubuntu determined to get this running there. After a couple hours working on it, I got it running in GNOME. Determined to go back to KDE WITH XGL/Beryl, I spent a couple more hours getting that running. While it is not smooth, it is working. I will put up a hotwo (yes another howto lol) and a few screenshots. This is eye candy that I can live with.
Tony
