Anno domini 14:42:25 Sat, 2 Dec 2023 -0800 (PST) Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users scripsit:
I remember my first installation was SuSE 6.1 (or maybe 6.2) and I vaguely remember that it used fvwm2. But that is a window manager, so not sure what the desktop environment was at that time. I remember a lot of people using it on SUN SPARC workstations while most used CDE in the 90s and early 2000s (until Linux completely replaced expensive UNIX workstation).
fvwm2 is still available in openSUSE, but I'm not sure whether it is normally used on its own as an application launcher or within a DE. There is also fvwm3.
Down memory lane ... FVWM is really a cool thing. In the 90s - when SuSE CD bundles were called after the year of release (SuSE 1995 - I still have a shrinkwraped original in the archive) fvwm with the default ugliest-of-all colorscheme was used as a default. How I hated the look, how I loved to hack it :) And then there were the "emulate Windows95" mockups (look ok, functionality not so). OpenLook with it's 2 versions of windows mangers that nobody could really knew why - but IMO it was the second "real" DE besides CDE ... well, besides it was easy to be programmed it's probably a good thing kids don't get exposed to this stuff any more, it'll leave permanent brain damage.
I have FVWM on my FreeBSD x61 though, highly customized (as this is what FVWM is good for). In fact, I can do things with it that I cannot do on TDE, but that's a different storry :)
Nik
Gianluca
On Fri, 1 Dec 2023, Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
I only just found this. Possibly same with the rest of us? https://eylenburg.github.io/de_comparison.htm#Review -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science.
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