On Thu, Apr18,02 11:52, Matt Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:01:09 -0400 > Derek Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a neat project... and one that might actually pull me away from > > blackbox... but alas, we'll see how it develops. :) > > > > http://lainos.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Oh, there's also this... which due to my familiarity with Perl probably has > > the highest chance of taking me away: > > > > http://www.perlbox.org/ > > > > Both have relations with Blackbox... and likely inspiration from them. :) > > Yes they do. And likewise fluxbox. And I find it quite telling that they haven't > even taken the time to change "blackbox" anywhere it appears in tarballs to whatever > name they're using... the fluxbox readme suddenly starts referring to blackbox > halfway through, and
haha... that's funny. > judging by a ss on the lainos site, the untarred code still > sits in a "Blackbox/" folder... > I think at this point in time the author is just hacking.... later on he may clean things up, one would hope. :) > I guess it comes down to what you want most.. stability, and features by the > original coders (ie reliable) or what's basically a bunch of patches stuck on the bb > base... > yeah... Free Software is beautiful because we have such a large base to start from. DC -- Derek Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives" -- Abba Eban Registered Linux User Number 195825
