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From fork-admin@xent.com Mon Aug 26 22:38:52 2002
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26 Aug 2002 07:35:05 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Gregory Alan Bolcer <gbolcer@endeavors.com>
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Subject: Enlightenment
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:25:30 -0700
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I finally let go of my Irix Magic desktop and window manager
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and evaluated several other window managers. Having lost my 10 years
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of customization with my X10 and then X11 desktop at one point
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at UCI, I promised myself that I'd never get attached to
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another WM. I limped along in the default Gnome desktop, I
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had a few unsuccessful stabs at the Solaris open view
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desktop, but nothing really stuck. Because of this along
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with SGI's love of pre-configured, pre-compiled freeware[1],
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I never really made the jump from Irix to Linux either.
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After installing the enlightenment WM, I have to say, I am
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really enlightened. It's definitely a far cry from the no frills
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first look from previous versions. It's only on version 0.17,[2]
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but it's a careful balance between simplicity, performance,
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(fun) features, applications, and ease of customization. The
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number of themes they have on freshmeat is amazing. [3] After
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less than an hour or two of "nesting" I already have almost
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all my menus and controls setup just the way I want.
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I definitely recommend this to any Irix desktop holdouts. It's
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a great way to refresh your machine SGI without having to bite the
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bullet and rebuild it as a Linux machine.
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Greg
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[1] http://freeware.sgi.com/
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[2] http://www.enlightenment.org/
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[3] http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/60/?topic_id=60
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