Ubuntu and Beryl actually bery and compiz have joined, you can install compiz from the repositorys
a repository is an on-line server supported by conical and the ubuntu community it contains all the deb packages for the most popular programs, you can access it via synaptic package manager or add remove programs in the applications menu, you need to set it to show all available applications and not all installed and then carry out a search for compiz, you should see advanced desktop affects download that it will install automatically, who said installing programs on linux was hard, because they're wrong!
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