Setting up XGL in SuSE 10.1

XGL and Compiz are seriously awesome. This is the reason why I want to beef up my hardware (huh, maybe I could just by the barebones system one Opteron and some ram and a decent but cheap NVidia AGP card). This feature from Novell Cool Solutions tells you just about everything you need to know.

Ubuntu has this in Dapper Drake but my STL2 has issues with the kernel on the install disc and I have to pass -noapic and even then it won't boot.

Ok Ted Haegar you salad dodger... your shamelss Novell propaganda at LinuxfestNW paid off... you win... I'm going to install SuSE.

(Actually I used to use SuSE until I discovered how awesome apt-get was and then I was all "El Debian es la bomba!" Then this crazy distro called Ubuntu showed up with an awful release name, Warty Warthog, but it was Debian Unstable and it was (supposedly) stable. So really this is an old SuSE user coming full circle after giving SuSE 2 years to improve their package manager.)

I'm going to install it right now! What? You say it is almost 10 PM and I have to work in the morning? Ah, yes, I see... alright I am going to fire up my bittorrent client and I am going to download every single ISO and when I get home from work tomorrow I am going to go out to the pub with my friends and drink beer. But! Just as soon as I wake up on Saturday I am going to... go to work and write some soul numbing Visual Basic for Applications. But! Just as soon as I finish writing soul numbing VBA I am going to go to the local greek restaurant and have a gyro. But! Just as soon as I finish that I will either install SuSE or take a nap. I haven't decided which yet.

The point is I will be installing SuSE and I will see how pathetic XGL performs on my hardware.. then I will be extra motivated to figure out how to afford better hardware.

(screenshot shamefully stolen from Ted's flickr without his permission)


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