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-Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather
-Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. metacity : meta as
-opacity : opaque. Also it may have something to do with the Meta key
-on UNIX keyboards.
+The original codebase named "Metacity" is not a meta-City as in an
+urban center, but rather Meta-ness as in the state of being
+meta. i.e. metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also it may have
+something to do with the Meta key on UNIX keyboards.
 
-The first release of Metacity was version 2.3. Metacity has no need for
-your petty hangups about version numbers.
-
-The stable releases so far are 2.4.x, 2.6.x, 2.8.[01], 2.8.1.x, 2.8.5-,
-2.10.x, 2.12.x, 2.14.x, 2.16.x.
-
-Unstable branches are 2.3.x, 2.5.x, 2.8.2-4, 2.9.x, 2.11.x, 2.13.x,
-2.15.x, 2.17.x.
+Since then, it has been renamed mutter after a rebase on top of
+clutter as a compositing manager.
 
 COMPILING MUTTER
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