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Is this one of the oldest WMs still in development for Unices? I remember I ran Enlightenment on my Pentium 133 MHz Linux box to get those cool aliens hanging from my windows. Feels like the version numbering isn't much different from those good old days. What is the rationale for running Enlightenment today, compared to, say, a DE like Xfce?



TWM (87) and FVWM (93) are still maintained today.


Don't forget CDE (93) and XFWM (96), still getting releases.


Xfwm has been rewritten from scratch at least 2 times. I can't imagine there is any code left from the original releases. Plus it used to be a CDE clone and that was dropped around version 2 when it became a light Gnome clone.


Window Maker was also first released in 1997.


Cool aliens? Is this a reference to the Alien 5/Alien 17 theme?


I don't remember what it was called, but yeah, something along these lines. It really looked cool.




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