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I saw this in a magazine and it was so cool looking. A few months later I got Linux on CD and never looked back. That 3D Motif/fvwm look was amazing.
Funny enough, my BIOS did not support booting from CD. I remember in DOS, I had to load MSCDEX from a floppy but I have no recollection on how I actually booted and installed Linux from CD.
Looks like FVWM2.
I just learned that OpenBSD still defaults to that look.
Possibly from DOS. It's a real-mode operating system.