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! -- Rouben Rostamian phone: 410-455-2412 Department of Mathematics and Statistics email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Maryland, Baltimore County fax: 410-455-1066 Baltimore, MD 21250, USA www: http://www.math.umbc.edu -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
