i think knoppix std uses it??? On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Michael Berkowski <mjb at umn.edu> wrote: > On 1/18/2011 12:17 PM, Drmgiver wrote: > > So, I have spent many years with Ubuntu, but I just recently fell in > > love with WindowMaker. Learning a bit about it I have found out that it > > isn't used very often any longer. But I am curious if anyone out there > > knows of any distro who uses it by default? > > To me, it's almost a little incongruous to think of a classic window > manager like Window Maker (or JWM, TWM, or my preferred FVWM, etc) as a > "default" distribution component, since all of these act independently > of the desktop integration aimed at by popular modern distributions. > Puppy Linux uses (at my last encounter, ca 4.0) JWM as a default. If > you uncheck the gnome box when installing Red Hat, you'll fall back to TWM. > > Instead, the classic bare window managers represent what I like most > about running Linux. They are components as much as is your web browser > or mail client, but usually invite (or require, in the case of FVWM) a > very deep level of customization on which to fine-tune one's work > environment. That's what I see as a poor fit for distributions in > general -- a distribution, pretty much by definition, makes decisions > about software inclusion to address either a very specific set of needs, > or more commonly the most general set possible. In either case though, > it's directed at specific/broad *groups of users*. In contrast, the > classic window managers are better suited to selection & use by an > individual who really understands his or her specific needs, keyboarding > habits, window arrangement preferences, etc. > > My $0.02, > +++++++++++++++++ > Michael Berkowski > Minitex / MnLINK Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer > University of Minnesota > 612.625.8736 > mjb at umn.edu > PGP Public key: > http://www.tc.umn.edu/~berk0081/pgp/pubkey.asc<http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Eberk0081/pgp/pubkey.asc> > +++++++++++++++++ > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110118/a618383f/attachment.htm