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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: RedHat's desktop (fvwm95+TheNextLevel) on 2.2.2?
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970727154729.007b82f0@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> from Jason Wells at "Jul 27, 97 03:47:29 pm"
To: jcwells@u.washington.edu (Jason Wells)
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:46:13 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dburr@POBoxes.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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> At 03:58 AM 7/27/97 -0700, Donald Burr wrote:
> >I've totally gotten used to the desktop as presented in RedHat Linux 4.2
> >that we run at work (something called "TheNextLevel" added on to fvwm95).
> >I'd like to set up this interface on my home machine, which runs FreeBSD.
> >I grabbed the source RPM's from our Redhat 4.2 CD-ROM and tried to install
> >them here, but nothing seems to work.  Has anyone done this (ported the
> >RedHat 4.2 desktop onto FreeBSD) and can give me some hints as to how to
> >do this successfully?  Thanks!
> 
> Fvwm95 is not a linux product in case you didn't know. It is not RedHat
> specific. It is free for the net. You can get fvwm95 from the fvwm95 website. 
> 
> Fvwm95 is really only a slight rehash of fvwm2. You can read the fvwm2 site
> for info as well. I used fvwm so I hope what I say applies to fvwm95 as well.
> 
Note that I use Fvwm95 regularly on my system for FreeBSD development, and
have turned some people onto it at work (NCI) also.

John