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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Stone wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: >> Rhia Knowles wrote: >>> Recent mint CDs come with compiz enabled on compatible hardware as >>> default. So boot up eg mint 7, and spin that cube! >> I'm not sure if it's me but I kinda get bored with the cube, if I do >> have desktop effects enabled (generally I don't) then I tend not to >> turn the cube on. You'd think by now there'd be something a little >> more exciting. :-P >> >> Rob >> >> > > The first thing I tend to do it disable anything that's going to steal > my resources.. then I recompile everything, after turning off the stuff > I don't want.. but that's just Gentoo for ya.. > It does show however that anything Windows can do, Linux can do something similar, in fact at a demo event its a good opportunity to argue about "what is the point" apart from to look nice and hog resources. sure it looks nice, but do we really need it, i would much rather demonstrate grouping and tabbing of windows, or a more useful feature. but yeah, a good way to get people interested in open source is to demonstrate the sort of things it's capable of. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 10.04 is out soon : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/ - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuxyCoACgkQaggq1k2FJq2wSgCfYMurzj8yz3o4Uq+6gK9NQ7QD F9MAnj+35HulXXbaYOUAR+vvTVdm+CsS =kw4P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html