Branders.name : 02.2004

Blackbox for Windows 0.0.90 released

Almost unbelievable. Finally released. I’ve waited long enough I think. For those of you who don’t what Blackbox is:

Blackbox for Windows is an alternative shell for Microsoft Windows. It is based stylistically on the Blackbox window manager for the X Window System, however it does not use the same codebase except for the gradient rendering code.

In short: BB4Win is a magnificent replacement for the standard Windows shell. It’s a minimalistic shell, so don’t expect thousands of plugins. Only the bare minimum. BB4Win has a very low memory footprint. So it runs nice on a computer with 64MB (like mine).
BB4Win was tested on WinXP, Win2K. I use it on Windows 98 and I don’t have any problems, so I think you can add that to the list. You don’t have the transparency of the other WindowsOS’s then though.

See the post about the release on the BB4Win.org-site.