OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:10:14 -0700
woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:

> Alexey Toptygin wrote:
> 
> >
> > There's a lot of window managers out there that don't have the bloat 
> > problems of Gnome and KDE. I like WindowMaker, but you can get 
> > AfterStep, fluxbox, icewm, etc.; there's tons available out of the box 
> > on most distros. The only way to win the "Desktop Envoronment" game is 
> > not to play :-)
> >
> So what does real unix use for a GUI?
> 

The X Window System.  With the Tab Window Manager (twm) which is tiny and a stock part of the 'base' X Window System.  Nowadays Motif has been released as open source so you can build it on anything and use mwm, which is another 'classic Unix' desktop (sorta.) 

The rest is all fluff.  (but I confess that I use fvwm).

> >             Alexey
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