"When Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) and Mandrake (Geoff Harrison) started the Enlightenment project almost 10 years ago, the eye candy intensive desktop manager was barely able to run by the hardware standards of that time. KDE and Gnome were in their infancy, and FVWM was the window manager of choice for a big percentage of Linux users.
"Many things have changed. Hardware is now much faster. While FVWM and its derviatives are still used by many people, KDE and Gnome are mature products that the majority of users select for their desktops..."
