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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