I remember trying it back in the day and was mighty impressed with it; pity that more consumer applications weren't ported, as that would have given it more mom

I remember trying it back in the day and was mighty impressed with it; pity that more consumer applications weren't ported, as that would have given it more momentum. You were right about it being a consumer OS (other than the fiddly titlebars - too small!) I remember running XConfigurator under RedHat 5 and taking days to get my rubbish VESA card working. Such was life without the Internet (or with £££ dialup). I thought GNOME1 looked squishy and nice but when you look back on it and the KDE2 screenshots, you realise how dated it was back in the days when mice with scrollwheels didn't exist.