<div dir="ltr">My OS X box works pretty nicely with its BSD foundations :-)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">a zillion years ago I tried E??. It took a month of Sundays to build and<br>
then I had to configure every single thing manually. It was pretty to look<br>
at and quite fast to use but the setup was a pain.<br>
<br>
Haven't done a *BSD in a very long time (10 years?).<br>
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Paul Cartwright <<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>><br>
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</span><div><div class="h5">> 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>
><br>
> > All these young whipper snappers with "DEs". Just don't need/want it.<br>
> 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<br>
> big WIN<br>
> > for me - and it works nicely in remote VMs, unlike many of the other<br>
> 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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