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fvwm Turns Ten
Some Old Dude writes "fvwm, F* Virtual Window Manager, is celebrating its 10th birthday in a few days. This is the window manager I used when cutting my Linux teeth back in the last millennium, and the one I still use today (after trying many newer ones). If it's been a while since you've seen what fvwm can do, check out its features and screenshots."
I currently have a graduate student who is working part-time on a rewrite of fvwm in CWEB, the literate programming language. It's helped to reveal several bugs and algorithmic inefficiencies in fvwm that would have otherwise remained hidden.
As a followup project, he and a group of fellow graduate students plan to implement the X11 protocol in a similar manner.
They don't look professional like motif or like www.fresco.org .
I think the point is that everyone agrees that Linux beats Windows on the reliability factor, but an OS is not defined by its uptime for a large amount of the people that use computers. Installing a program should require two clicks to the user. No RPM's, no Makefiles, no gcc. If it is needed, make it invisible to the user. Changing out hardware should be as easy as it is with Windows. The majority of people dont use the command line on Windows, you should be able to do the same with Linux. All of this command line junk that is left from Unix of the 60's should at least be made transparent for the majority of tasks. Linux is behind the curve for use on a home PC, it should at least catch up before trying to out-do Windows.
It's not even worthy of my first asshole. God bless colitis, as it has given me a second asshold worthy of fvwm.