Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by PaulWFrields: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Desktop The comment on the change is: Move this out of the Overview. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AIGLX, from the [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject Fedora Rendering Project], is part of the upstream '''X.org 7.1''' release included in Fedora Core 6. '''X.org''' compositing is enabled by default in this release. Compositing features in '''Metacity''', the default window manager provided in GNOME, are disabled in this release. When desktop effects are enabled, '''Metacity''' is replaced by '''Compiz''', an OpenGL compositing window manager that uses AIGLX to provide desktop effects. A list of hardware that supports these effects is available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx. + + == Software Management == + + The performance for the `yum` software management utility has been greatly improved in Fedora Core 6. The repository metadata parser has now been implemented in C. A new mirror management infrastructure also ensures better mirror selection and, in most cases, faster performance. The '''Pirut''' package management tool and the '''Pup''' software update utility are based on `yum`, so their performance is likewise improved. == GNOME ==
