The other day, got me thinking about switching window managers from Gnome to FluxBox on my work machine. Considering, mind you. Mulling it over. Swishing it around, so to speak.

This got me thinking about other things. Things like LiteStep from back in the day. I couldn’t remember the name of it when I was thinking about it, but this article about ReactOS, linked to by SlashDot, had a reference to it in one of the comments.

Good article, by the way.

Now, on the original topic of window managers, I decided to check out KDE. I was all like, “Wait, that’s what Knoppix uses!” I’ve used it on my own machines, after being introduced to it at a Penguicon.

I got to wondering, what if the K in Knoppix stood for KDE? I mean, it’s pronounced as if the K wasn’t even there, right? Kind of like the G in Gnome (if you’ve ever played AD&D, that is). So, I wonder if there’s a Gnoppix! Well, there is. Not only that, but Gnoppix is based on… wait for it… Ubuntu.

What cracks me up is that Gnoppix, Knoppix, and Ubuntu are all derivatives of Debian.

Well, it cracks ME up.

UPDATE: Looks like that article on ReactOS got slashdotted. Whoops.