dep, FHS, Slackware
David A. Bandel
david
Mon May 17 11:34:12 PDT 2004
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:05:03 -0400
begin dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> spewed forth:
> begin David A. Bandel's quote:
>
> | I started on Slackware (this was before RH even existed). What I
> | liked about it was it looked and felt almost exactly like my Ultrix
> | and SUN OS 4 (Solaris 1.x) boxes did (SUN switched to SySV w/ SUN
> | OS 5, aka Solaris 2.x). Openwin anyone? Thank God for CDE
> | (not-so-Common Desktop Environment). Openwin, the only desktop
> | worse than M$'.
>
> well, there were topview and, on linux, looking glass. i don't guess a
> lot of either is being sold anymore . . . . .
don't think I've ever tried topview. But I did load looking glass (just
once, but I didn't inhale, honest). Never looked a second time. I think
at the time I was using fvwm and tkdesktop.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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