A short outside history of Xfce

[John Thompson]

Joe Klemmer wrote:

> 	Back in the mid-90's I was hacking away trying to prove that the
> organization I was with didn't need $60K to put up a web server (see
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1259).  My involvement with Linux
> started in November of 1991 so I have some familiarity with it and what
> it could do.  I grabbed the latest Slackware CD and proceeded to make my
> Pentium desktop (yes, an original Pentium running at 133MHz; 128M RAM;
> 1G HD) into a combination workstation and server. 

I remember that era -- xfce looked pretty much exactly like CDE. I was
running it on a 5x86 (486 upgrade chip)/133mHz with 32MB RAM and it
worked fine!


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-John Thompson (john at os2.dhs.org)
 Appleton WI USA