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Alternative Fax
Personal blog · smspillaz.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
Alternative Fax is a personal blog at smspillaz.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Apology from Compiz maintainer”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog as background on Compiz, the Unity desktop and the libanimation wobbly-windows library, usually as a source for their own points. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Not exactly defined
Most-linked posts?
- Apology from Compiz maintainer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-12-26
What Hacker News says?
Compiz is not without problems either: http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/apology-2/ And Mozilla has left Thunderbird more or less. Lack of developer power seems to be a pattern within open source desktop projects.
Comment linking /2011/12/25/apology-2/
on “Gnome: Staring into the abyss”Submitted Apology from Compiz maintainer as a story · 52 points
HN discussion> As for UnityX, i don't think starting from scratch is wise TBH, I think I agree with you. There was Unity2D: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity2D The source is still around. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d It was built against a now-obsolete version of Qt though. (To be fair it was discontinued a decade ago.) I think Qt 4, but I am not sure. I have no clue how much work is involved in changing a Qt4 appli…
Comment linking /2012/12/24/sideways/
on “Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus”Submitted On the future of Graphics Drivers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWobbly windows just recently made a revival with the original author separating it from compiz: https://github.com/endlessm/libanimation far more info here: https://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/libanimation-for-...
Comment linking /2018/09/10/libanimation-for-everyone/
on “Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend”Submitted A unit testing framework for CMake as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI gather from the original statement by Mark Shuttleworth that the decision to cancel further development of Unity version 8 was a business decision based on not continuing development of the phone/mobile converged UI. I suspect (and hope) that Canonical just ignored the 'vocal minority' and carried on! Otherwise no-one would ever try anything new. I'm just wondering slightly how much of a Chandler the Unity 8 proje…
Comment linking /2017/04/06/vale-unity/amp/
on “A new vantage point: Canonical CEO Jane Silber to step down”Submitted Lead Compiz developer leaves Canonical as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAn interesting side note here is that the coming Unity will be based upon compiz, instead of relying on mutter. Canonical apparently hired the lead developer of compiz: http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/a-bright-new-futur...
Comment linking /2010/10/25/a-bright-new-future-for-compiz/
on “Ubuntu 11.04 will use Unity UX instead of GNOME Desktop”Submitted A bright new future for Compiz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCompiz also seems to be in trouble: http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/apology-2/
Comment linking /2011/12/25/apology-2/
on “Gnome Shell and Unity”Submitted Flicker-free compositor replaces as a story · 1 points
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