Anyone Using GNU/After/Openstep?

[Ed Sutherland]

WindowMaker is stable, yet, by all accounts, has seen very little 
updating. GNUstep is interesting. The Address Book for Mac OS X is 
exactly like the GNUstep Address Manager, save the Aqua interface. I 
found Fluxbox to be a better WM for GNUstep.

In the end, I decided to return to OS X. The applications I most use on 
Linux were available natively in Mac OS X. While I may not be able to 
run zillions of huge applications at the same time and Mac OS X is very 
intensive, I finally asked myself 'why am I trying to save RAM or 
processor cycles -- so I can leave them in my will??' My new mantra: peg 
your processor to the 'red line' and suck up every byte in your computer 
-- anything else is just a waste. :)

Ed



Greg Hamilton wrote:

>
> GNUStep (http://gnustep.org) is much more interesting. They've created 
> a free implementation of OPENSTEP so it not only looks like the old 
> NeXT interface but also uses the same API. This is the API that Cocoa 
> is based on so if you've delved into application development using 
> Objective C, Cocoa and the Apple developer tools in OS X you'll find 
> GNUStep very familiar.
>
> Since GNUStep isn't a window manager you'll need to install one to 
> make any use of it. I believe Window Maker is the official GNUStep 
> window manager. It certainly looks the part. In fact if all you're 
> after is something that looks like NeXTStep you'll probably be happy 
> with Window Maker without the fuss of installing all the GNUStep stuff.
>