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I mean, sure, but in that world OPEN LOOK would have been replaced long ago; it's not as if we'd still be using it in 2021.
by pcwalton 5y ago
I mean, sure, but in that world OPEN LOOK would have been replaced long ago; it's not as if we'd still be using it in 2021.
- anyfoo 5y agoI wasn't trying to divine an alternative present, just recollecting past grievances. Though I don't know, if OpenLook had lived on, maybe some of it at least would have survived through the ages. Maybe not, though, because Windows was already there, and that pretty much displaced everything. I doubt OpenLook would have made a difference in that versus CDE.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoIf CDE survived as FOSS, why could open look not have done the same?
- jabl 5y agoI recall using olvwm (http://www.xwinman.org/olvwm.php http://www.xwinman.org/olvwm.php) on my Linux machine sometime in the mid-late 90'ies (as I had used Sun workstations at a summer job and I liked the look of it). Not sure it's FOSS per the DFSG criteria, but at least it was available with source under a somewhat free to use license.
- sigzero 5y agoIt did for a while as OLVWM but it looks like any links I find are dead now. I enjoy the clean look of it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agohttp://ftp.metu.edu.tr/pub/mirrors/ftp.x.org/R5contrib/olvwm4.tar.Z http://ftp.metu.edu.tr/pub/mirrors/ftp.x.org/R5contrib/olvwm... No idea how usable it is or even how to build it, but that looks like the tarball...
- hulitu 5y agoThere were some warnings that olwm is not 64bit clean. As far as i know can be compiled on 32bit systems.