Ditto with the 2.4x/2.6x kernels on Linux/ FreeBSD 4.x and KDE3 on top, with the first release of X.org. I am more like a Fluxbox + ROX guy, but if I had
to choose a DE, KDE3 was rock solid and featureful, and
you could disable Artsd just fine, dmix and OSS4 on earch respective systems worked well otherwise.
