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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2001 11:37:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The desktop apathy
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105291133370.11271-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr>

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On Sun, 27 May 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

> I'd say most users of BSD whom I know use linux as a GUI -- that is,
> their window manager / desktop environment was developed on linux,
> though it may be ported to run natively on FreeBSD.  The "BSD
> community" as such has made no contribution to the desktop, so can't
> complain if the existing options are GPL'd.

I guess it depends on your definition of "BSD community".

Blackbox is a commonly-used window manager that is developed under FreeBSD
and has a BSD-like license.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/



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