[ Thanks to Dolores Parker for this link.
]
“The ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE
built around the ROX-Filer file manager. The project’s name is an
abbreviation of ‘RISC OS on X.’ The ROX Desktop’s performance is
reminiscent of IceWM, and it’s noticeably faster opening programs
than GNOME or KDE. However, its speed comes at the expense of a
needlessly redundant default configuration, and some users may balk
at some of the assumptions its design makes about how they prefer
to work.The ROX Desktop is not part of most distributions. However,
unlike many projects, it maintains not only the usual source code
and tarred binaries, but also a large number of packages for major
distributions, including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva,
Slackware, and openSUSE…”