Window Maker is an official GNU project | Linux Today

Window Maker is an official GNU project

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 27, 1999

“Alfredo Kengi Kojima announced today that Window Maker has
become an official GNU “project.” Because of its new status, Window
Maker will enjoy distribution through the extensive gnu
network.”

“Window Maker is rapidly growing to one of the big names in X
Window Managers, portable to most *NIX’s, and with a modern day
NeXT feel. Without even reaching version 1.0 yet, it has gained a
reputation as being easily configurable, and highly stable. In
addition, GNOME support, KDE support, OPEN LOOK support, Motif
support, and current GNUstep support are all featured in
WindowMaker.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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