Mezzo Desktop Environment

[KeepItFunky]

I want to try Mezzo... has anyone had any luck installing it in *ubuntu 8.10? I know that SymphonyOS is the main vessel for Mezzo, but their forum seems to be down. I found the below instructions, but I cannot boot from a live CD any ideas on how else?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474934 leads to...
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-473805.html

[Sorivenul]

I don't know about the 2006 version of Mezzo off the top of my head, but as far as I know the Mezzo used in the latest Symphony release is just an FVWM configuration. I'll look into it more, if somebody doesn't beat me to the punch.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Mezzo seems to be a dead end anyhow, its supposed to be open source and yet I cannot find any way to remotely get the sourcecode for it.

[Sorivenul]

Okay, I did some looking into the matter.

This article from linux.com is good for an overview of Mezzo.

In short, Mezzo is simply a specific configuration of FVWM, an entirely different window manager, with gDesklets thrown on top. There's more to it than that, but not much. I know I've got a Symphony 2008.1 CD around here, maybe I could pull out the Mezzo FVWM configuration files.