clueless GNOME bashing (was Re: [rescue] Mozilla Firefox)

Carl R. Friend crfriend at rcn.com
Wed Apr 28 05:29:47 CDT 2004


   On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Dave McGuire wrote:

>    Fvwm has been around for _ages_.  It's quite nice, and for a long 
> time it was the lightest-weight window manager around, second possibly 
> only to twm, or possibly "wm" under X10 (if anybody else remembers 
> that).

   I first used fvwm in the mid 1990s on Linux and liked it so much
I went to the trouble of porting it onto Intergraph's CLIX.  In fact,
fvwm remains the window manager I still use on a day-to-day basis at
home.

>    Fvwm kicks ass.

   Serious ass.

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