I join the other happy users in conveying my congratulations
on the occasion of Fvmw's 10th birthday.
I recall very well the day when I asked a colleague to bring
his laptop over to show me this new thing called Linux.
It must have been around 1993 or so. I believe he was running
fvwm as window manager. The desktop contained the familiar
pager with each desktop split into 3x3 pages. It looked very
similar to twm and mwm window managers which I had been using
at the time on Sun and Sgi machines.
The next day I instructed my sysadmin to download and install
Linux on my desktop. That was before the days of fast internet
connections, CD burners, and commercial Linux distributions.
His download required a couple of days and took up about 30 floppies.
It must have been Linux kernel 0.96 or thereabouts.
The distribution (Slackware, I think) came with fvwm. Converting
my twm config files to fvwm required very little effort. The syntax
was almost the same.
I have used nothing but Linux and fvwm since then. Shortly thereafter
we retired all our Sun and Sgi equipment and went completely Linux
in a department of about 30 faculty and 50 graduate students. The
sysadmin maintained a firm control on configuring user accounts.
The only window manager made available was fvwm and it remains that
way to this day. Generations of students have gone through the
department since, graduating with master's and doctoral degrees,
having done their entire graduate research, computation and
publishing through screens controlled by fvwm.
I look forward to using fvwm for many years to come.
Happy birthday!
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Rouben Rostamian phone: 410-455-2412
Department of Mathematics and Statistics email: rostamian_at_umbc.edu
University of Maryland, Baltimore County fax: 410-455-1066
Baltimore, MD 21250, USA www: http://www.math.umbc.edu
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Received on Fri May 30 2003 - 23:31:20 BST