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From: wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (William Edward Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Historic opportunity for free UNIX
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Date: 2 May 1996 14:40:12 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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Michael Dillon (michael@memra.com) opined:
: I beginning to think that this ease-of-use thing for UNIX is about to
: explode in the same way that Linux exploded when Torvalds tied his kernel
: together with the plethora for free UNIX apps, especially the GNU ones.
[snip]
: I've just discovered FVWM95 and Offix, both listed on the following WWW
: page: http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml
[snip]
Let me add in tkdesk 1.0a2 (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/man-
agers/tkdesk-1.0a2.tar.gz), a very impressive package which illustrates
the potential for Tcl-Tk to revolutionise the production of stable,
professional, and easily configurable graphical interfaces for XWindow.

William "busily reading Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" Webber.
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William Webber                  Postgrad. Dip. in CS, RMIT, Australia
wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au            http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wew/
Interests: linux, chess, hermeneutics 
"Well, I'll say this for you, the quality of your stupidity is rising"
					- Lucy, from Peanuts.