Anil Gulecha wrote: > On 10/22/07, David.Comay at sun.com <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote: >>> We discussed this at the summit, and everyone was orally for including >>> compiz on the Indiana release (but having it turned off by default). >>> Is this still the plan? >> It sounded like Compiz isn't quite ready (particularly given the >> limited device support) for integration into the Live CD at the >> moment. However, I would expect it to be made available through a >> network repository in the near term. >> > > Stability wise, it's stable enough for the Ubuntu guys to leave it on > by default in Gutsy. And device wise, both INtel and Nvidia are > covered (with ATI coming in soon). That leaves a large part of the > audience covered. It makes sense to include it in the first release as > it's not more than 5 mb big (from erwann's packages) and adds a lot of > eye candy that users love to see.
I would tend to agree.. As long as it's not enabled by default and fails gracefully if the required hardware support isn't there, what's the harm in including it? -ian -- Ian Murdock http://ianmurdock.com/ "Don't look back--something might be gaining on you." --Satchel Paige
