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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au!not-for-mail From: wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (William Edward Webber) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Historic opportunity for free UNIX Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 2 May 1996 14:40:12 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4mahgc$9v8@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> References: <4m9f0a$kh9@sidhe.memra.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au NNTP-Posting-User: wew X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:47734 comp.os.linux.development.apps:15132 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18558 Michael Dillon (michael@memra.com) opined: : I beginning to think that this ease-of-use thing for UNIX is about to : explode in the same way that Linux exploded when Torvalds tied his kernel : together with the plethora for free UNIX apps, especially the GNU ones. [snip] : I've just discovered FVWM95 and Offix, both listed on the following WWW : page: http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml [snip] Let me add in tkdesk 1.0a2 (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/man- agers/tkdesk-1.0a2.tar.gz), a very impressive package which illustrates the potential for Tcl-Tk to revolutionise the production of stable, professional, and easily configurable graphical interfaces for XWindow. William "busily reading Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" Webber. -- William Webber Postgrad. Dip. in CS, RMIT, Australia wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wew/ Interests: linux, chess, hermeneutics "Well, I'll say this for you, the quality of your stupidity is rising" - Lucy, from Peanuts.