On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:57:06AM -0700, Meistro Master wrote: > I've recently come back to Debian after several years of disappointing > work on other platforms (mainly Mac). In the past, I had used > Windowmaker as my window manager and a few GNUstep apps (GNUmail, > mainly). > > Is GNUstep still a useful platform; is it popular? I see that there > have been some recent releases of the API tools, but sometimes it's > difficult to tell how pervasive a platform is. "Actively developed" > can sometimes mean that three hackers continue to work on something > that everyone else has abandoned :D > > I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus > prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE are too > bulky for my PIII-650 / 320MB workstation. I've not tried XFCE yet, > but hear good things. > > I really do enjoy the NeXT/OPEN/AFTER/step environment, but don't want > to get reacquainted with something that's dying a slow death :( >
There was a recent major release of WindowMaker to 0.91. I don't think it is dying at all. To the best I can figure, there are still many actively developed GNUstep apps out there, with new ones occasionally popping up. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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