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From: jan@ECHO.CANBERRA.EDU.AU (Jan Newmarch)
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Subject: Re: X Desktop Environments
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Date: 29 Jan 91 14:40:03 GMT
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> Is
> there, or is there going to be, some standard OSF-endorsed desktop
> environment? 
> 

One of the criticisms of X (often from non-Unix people) is that all it
really amounts to is lots of the dreaded Unix $ prompts in lots of
terminal emulation windows, and that what you are getting is a more
complex character based environment. Taking this a bit further, what
you get from the standard OSF distribution is lots of the dreaded $
prompts wrapped in terminal windows with pretty borders. I must admit
that I find it a bit painful to have to fork out extra globs of money
to give me a desktop manager, particularly when Microsoft Windows
already comes with one and is dirt cheap. So I would join the cry:
"is there going to be some standard OSF-endorsed desktop environment?"
and add: "as part of the OSF distribution"

Sorry to sound so cynical (I spent yesterday losing out to Form again).

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