<div dir="ltr"><div>a zillion years ago I tried E??. It took a month of Sundays to build and then I had to configure every single thing manually. It was pretty to look at and quite fast to use but the setup was a pain.<br><br></div>Haven't done a *BSD in a very long time (10 years?).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">so, does anyone use *BSD for a desktop system?? free/Open..<br>
I used to use E16 back in Windows dayz, last time I tried E17 I had to<br>
rebuild my linux OS... it was ugly..<br>
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> All these young whipper snappers with "DEs". Just don't need/want it. But I'm<br>
> not a barbarian running twm. ;)<br>
><br>
> Plus my ~/.fvwmrc file hasn't needed major updating in years! THAT is a big WIN<br>
> for me - and it works nicely in remote VMs, unlike many of the other options. ;)<br>
><br>
> On 09/08/2014 07:02 PM, Evan Banyash wrote:<br>
>> Okay, FVWM is definitely dead. I know that for certain because a project<br>
>> exists specifically to resurrect it!<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://github.com/ThomasAdam/mvwm" target="_blank">https://github.com/ThomasAdam/mvwm</a><br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:39 PM, JD <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> On 09/08/2014 12:45 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:<br>
>>>> Long live XFCE! :)<br>
>>> Long live fvwm!<br>
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