Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin  quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 04:10:28PM 
> -0800:
> [snip]
> > Bare install of Sun Solaris 2.6, and I wanted to run Window Maker.
> > List of things I had to install:
> > libPropList libXpm libpng zlib libtiff libungif gettext
> > 
> > Bare install of Sun Solaris 8, and I wanted to run Window Maker 0.91.0:
> > fontconfig freetype libjpeg libpng libungif render tiff xft xpm xrender
> > 
> > This is jsut for a window manager.
> 
> Not _just_ a window-manager.  Window Maker almost counts as a desktop.
> And it has a ton of eye-candy, too.

Eh.  ;)

> For "a" window-manager, compile and install amiwm.... 

http://incise.org/files/dev/tinywm-1.3.tgz

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tinywm-1.3]% wc -l tinywm.c
      58 tinywm.c

Yes, that a window manager in 58 lines of C.

> > > The only difference is that we gave C bloat a name--Linux.
> > 
> > I'd prefer to call it GNU. Though Linux is getting bloatier: it will no
> > longer fit onto a single 1.44M floppy.
> 
> It always took two, I thought.
> 
> A boot and a root.

Linux is a kernel. Just a kernel. Nothing but a kernel. That fit on a
single floppy.

-john
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