FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux and Unix, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.
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Wrong. It's a default, but in Fvwm95 project. Clean FVWM has a default of grey screen with nothing on it 
Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM95 for more info on those two.
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Really enjoyed the article - the enthusiasm is so clear. This, things like elive, slax, its the true spirit of open source, people just doing things they like, with other like minded people joining in. Its the antithesis of the 'computer as appliance' that 'just works' with 'user interface guidelines' fascism. These guys will never dream of doing Bob the paperclip. Its really a celebration of a certain innocent diversity and enthusiasm. We aren't all alike, one size doesn't fit all, and we are not here to control you or even hold your hand.
And who knows, might just try it.
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and it took awhile for me to consider it again.
Recently I had installed a copy of RH 5.x on VPC on my iBook. It was as bad in emulation as when I first tried it (included in a beginner's linux book). I played with it for a month or two, got tired of it and dumped it. I couldn't even get Dillo installed, because no version of bunzip would install on it.
But I might give Crystal FVWM a try on some old machines at work.
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