FVWM 2.6 has been released. “It’s been almost five years since the last stable release of FVWM (2006) and almost ten years since the development version of FVWM (2.5.X) which became this latest stable release was started! A lot of hard work from many talented individuals has made this release possible.”
I’ve been using FVWM for around 15 years, and although it’s been a long time since the 2.4 release, it’s hard to think of how to meaningfully improve on it. It’s already super fast and absurdly flexible. Some things are already too good to need rapid releases…
It just means OSes like OpenBSD will finally move to an updated FVWM.
but way too late.
Not really. I imagine that the latest incarnations of the three major desktop environments are pushing people back to more traditional window managers. As long as there are still users there’s always room for bugfixes.
What does that mean? Too late for you? Too late to be a relevant release? FVWM has a pretty hardcore following and not everyone likes the big desktop environments.
Based on the screenshots on this (http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/) page it doesn’t look like its too late to me.
FVWM is a personal favorite of mine. Thanks for all the hard work guys.
Still rememeber the days where FVWM was the most advanced WM that you could get to run on Linux.
Those were the days…
What do you mean “Was” ?
Its amazing what you can do with it.
Well, I am old enough to remember the days when besides FVWM, you only had TWM to chose from.
Wow, now that’s a long time without any update. I hope many open source projects update their status once in a while.
One of these days when I get around to building my low-resource “Traditional *Nix Environment”, I may even use it, if I decide that a GUI is called for.