The Desktop Revolution

Compiz-Fusion is a new and magical way of interacting with your computer. Some of it is pure eye-candy, but some of it is breaking into whole new areas of thinking. However, the best way, of describing it is to see it for yourself,

Compiz-Fusion will work on practically all versions of Linux, but I've integrated it with my favourite version, Puppy Linux. I've called it wNOP, named after NOP, my favourite breed of Puppy Linux. wNOP, like Puppy, is small and fast, however, Compiz-Fusion will only work with fairly new graphics cards (about 5 years new).

  • nVidia - from GeForce2 onwards
  • ATI - from Radeon 7000 onwards
  • Intel - from i810 onwards

So here is the latest version of wNOP --

wNOP version 0.2

After downloading the ISO image file (it's about 130MB) you can follow the instructions here to boot your computer from it.

Changelogs

version 0.2
  • Based on NOPr2 (A nicely tweaked, well maintained and Xfce-based Puppy)
  • Intel cards based on i810 driver work out of the box
  • Fglrx driver added for newer ATI cards, but provides mostly unusable functionality
  • CF Wizard script now offers a simple Auto or Manual choice at first boot
  • Wobble Fairy Button on top panel magically fixes CF and Emerald crashes
  • Xfce default session edited to prevent an invisible taskbar at first boot
  • CCSM compiled to standalone executable, so Python is no longer needed
  • Lil-Polar cursor added
  • Gxine uses the xshm driver to enable video playback in CF (still not perfect)
  • Default Emerald theme is bluer for active windows
  • Lots of little things here and there

first version (given the retronym 0.1)
  • Compiz-Fusion 0.5.2 compiled form GIT in OCtober 2007 by Puppy forum member wow
  • The CCSM (settings manager), Python and Python modules
  • Xorg7.2 DRI modules
  • Xorg7.2 OpenGL
  • Some bugfixes for ATI setups and Compiz-Fusion itself
  • Proprietary nVidia drivers (x3) (cos OSS drivers don't do AIGLX)
  • My own Compiz-Fusion wizard script (/usr/sbin/cfwizard)