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Date:      Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:30:08 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Diego Calleja Garc?a <aradorlinux@yahoo.es>
Cc:        Randi Harper <sektie@freebsdgirl.com>
Subject:   Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster
Message-ID:  <20030904023008.GE40413@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030903232829.732e37d5.aradorlinux@yahoo.es>
References:  <20030903224346.4bbbf208.aradorlinux@yahoo.es> <DECA7DCE-DE51-11D7-8013-000393D46EC6@freebsdgirl.com> <20030903232829.732e37d5.aradorlinux@yahoo.es>

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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:28:29PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Diego Calleja Garc?a, and lo! it spake thus:
> El Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:02:04 -0400 Randi Harper <sektie@freebsdgirl.com> escribi?:
> 
> > 
> > What exactly is realistic about that? There's nothing wrong with 
> > reinventing the wheel if only works perfectly on one type of car. It 
> > doesn't sound like it was a very good wheel in the first place if 
> > that's the case.
> 
> Well, it's "being realistic" in the sense "you can't rewrite a entire desktop
> software in two days". Gnome and KDE have been working for _years_ and they're
> very ahead of anything else you can find in the OSS world (GPL or BSD).

Oh?

I use ctwm.  It works great.  Far better than all that crap stuffed into
Gnome or KDE.  It does the two things a window manager is supposed to do;
manage my windows, and stay the hell outta my way.  And it's not GPL'd.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"



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