Red Hat Linux in 1998 (2009)

Re:Red Hat Linux in 1998 (2009) by pipeline_peak on Sunday June 15, 2025 @01:37PM (#44283690)

Why does this Gnome beta preview have TWM windowing? Was the Gnome kind not available yet?

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Re:Red Hat Linux in 1998 (2009) by fredoralive on Sunday June 15, 2025 @01:48PM (#44283778)

The article notes Gnome didn't have it's own window manager yet.

I'm slightly surprised it's using TWM, rather than something like FVWM95, I'm sure I used an ancient version of Red Hat that used that, but it might be the author's preference.

(Edit: another poster says FVWM95 was the release after this...)

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Re:Red Hat Linux in 1998 (2009) by compressedgas on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:53AM (#44296347)

I remember when GNOME used the Sawfish window manager. This was after that but before Metacity.

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Re:Red Hat Linux in 1998 (2009) by anthk on Sunday June 15, 2025 @02:06PM (#44283906)

Gnome used to run with E and Sawfish.

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Re:Red Hat Linux in 1998 (2009) by giantrobot on Sunday June 15, 2025 @01:49PM (#44283782)

IIRC on this version of Red Hat TWM was the default window manager installed. FVWM, WindowMaker, and maybe Enlightenment shipped on the disc. Again IIRC the next version (5.2) used FVWM95 by default. Maybe 6.0 shipped with FVWM95 by default. It's been a minute.

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Re:Red Hat Linux in 1998 (2009) by joey486DX4 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @03:38PM (#44284506)

5.2 had FVWM95 as the default. There were menu options to restart in AfterStep and something else, probably twm. That was my first Linux. I also compiled qvwm, mlvwm, IceWM from scratch. And ultimately settled on Blackbox.

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