FVWM-Crystal 3.0.4: Speed and Transparency

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FVWM-Crystal 3.0.4: Speed and Transparency

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 17, 2006 @02:24AM from the back-in-the-day dept.

michuk writes "PolishLinux.org has published a review of FVWM-Crystal 3.0.4: "FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux and UNIX, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.""

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Re:Sure... by Watson+Ladd · 2006-09-17 02:32 · Score: 2, Informative

The article says it should be compared to KDE or GNOME, not Flukebox or BlackBox in terms of functionality vs. system load.

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Coral Cache by RAMMS+EIN · 2006-09-17 02:35 · Score: 4, Informative

The server is melting, here's the coral cache link.

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the 'f' was for feeble by nurb432 · 2006-09-17 02:37 · Score: 4, Informative

Since the story comments that the developers dont remember what it stood for since its 'so old' . Geeeh. Old is not a few years..

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1. Re:the 'f' was for feeble by MightyYar · 2006-09-17 12:35 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  I did a quick search on Google Groups, and the oldest thing that I could find was "feeble" in a 1994-era Wine FAQ. Interestingly, my understanding of what WINE stands for was wrong, too. I always thought that it was "Wine Is Not an Emulator", but in the FAQ from 1994 it says "WINdows Emulator"... so there you go.
  
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Original sites! by MoogMan · 2006-09-17 02:48 · Score: 4, Informative

Sometimes it doesn't hurt to link to the original site - or better, a pre-emptive Corel Cache of the original site !
Desktop or Window Manager by 10Ghz · 2006-09-17 03:54 · Score: 5, Informative

Last time I checked, FVWM was just a WM, and not a proper desktop as such.

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Sort of... by Kadin2048 · 2006-09-17 04:07 · Score: 2, Informative

There seems to be one in-progress on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_desktop _environments

Right now it only compares Gnome, KDE, and xfe, and then it really only lists somewhat superficial differences. If it were fleshed out, I think it could be quite handy.

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Re:Ultra fast desktop, same old slow applications by Slayk · 2006-09-17 04:14 · Score: 2, Informative

Gnome has its own virtual file system driver, for crying out loud ! WTF does a desktop need a file system driver for ?!?
So that Gnome applications are portable wherever Gnome VFS exists, and gain the benefit of working with whatever GnomeVFS works with?

I like how my desktop works pretty well over SFTP/SMB/FTP (and I guess WebDAV but I've never used that) without me caring what protocol the bits are going over. Gnome is a framework in additon to being a desktop.