Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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In 2002, various developers and Unix figures shared screenshots of their desktops, showing diverse setups and preferences.
Dennis Ritchie used a Plan 9 system via drawterm on WNT 4, with the acme application and mail utility.
Brian Kernighan described a simple setup with xterm windows, often on Windows with an X server.
Richard Stallman mostly used text-mode, with occasional X and GNOME, and didn't know how to make screenshots.
Bram Moolenaar worked with four xterms and Netscape windows on KDE.
Rasmus Lerdorf ran Linux with Gnome2, using vim and Pine.
Matthias Ettrich used S.u.S.E. with KDE, konsole, XEmacs, and monitoring tools, playing Mozart.
Warren Toomey preferred fvwm on FreeBSD, sticking to command-line tools like vi and tcsh.
Jon 'maddog' Hall used SuSE with KDE and GNOME on different machines, emphasizing software installation.
Other contributors included Luke Mewburn on NetBSD, Timothee Besset with various apps, and John Baldwin on FreeBSD with KDE.
Rob Malda provided a KDE screenshot, and Jun-ichiro Hagino shared a NetBSD-related image.
Michael Lesk used multiple Windows machines for compatibility, with a primary FreeBSD system tiling Xwindows.

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