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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Hmm, so would an Ion platform would play nice with Compiz-Fusion or does it still need a bit of CPU power?
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Compiz was developed by a Suse engineer
David Reveman (26 years old at the time!). Back them it was called XGL. Later on it was joined with a RedHat developed AIGLX.
see
http://people.freedesktop.org/~david...demo1.xvid.avi for the very first demo of this technology. It says Novel, but this is because at that time Suse was purchased by Novel
The very first version was extremely difficult to install by mere mortals because it meant customizing sources and recompiling of LOTS of components - from kernel, through X window system to composing window managers.
THE very first distribution that demonstrated the unbelievable effects was called Kororaa Linux.
I run successfully Kororaa Live CD on a Pentium III computer 550MHZ, 380MB RAM and Nvidia MX440 graphics card with 32 MB of RAM.
Nvidia MX440 is the lowest and oldest graphics card that can run this.
Even the humblest Ion configuration is much faster than the above mentioned configuration.
And wait until you get the newest mini board with Atom processor and Nvidia chipset.
Compiz runs great even on relatively old Intel graphics chip-sets that are installed on budget motherboards.