Talk:FVWM

"This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale." What's up with that ? Although I never used it and probably never will. It still is a popular wm. I strongly disagree with "low-importance" ! Garo (talk) 10:56, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Fvwmlogo.png
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Fvwm2?
How does fvwm2 fit into the timeline?--Hhielscher 15:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Gibberish sentence
The article contains this sentence: Ion and Larswm, VTWM, in that Sawfish or Kwin is more with Ctwm.

I can't figure out what this sentence is trying to say. Can someone clean this up, or should we just delete it? Riordanmr (talk) 20:53, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Also there is typo in the "Derivatives" picture, it reads "Enlightement" i think it should read "Enlightenment" as in "http://www.enlightenment.org/"
 * A lot of time passed, nothing changed. I'll do it. -- oKto  siTe  talk  17:12, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

License, OpenBSD version
OpenBSD seems to use FVWM 2.0.46. Looking at a Git mirror of the Fvwm code, the license was changed to GPL after that. (The version does not seem be explicitly clear...)

A patch adding the text of the GPL was added on 12 Nov 1998. The Changelog at that time, show that it was shortly after version 2.0.46. (It also seems to be shortly after Dominik Vogt took over maintenance, seemingly from Steve Robbins). Looking at this it seems that the GPL transition was announced 1999-04-08.... MoHaG (talk) 07:11, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Debian GNU/Linux and MOS:Linux
I reverted this edit by Eupsychos. While Debian linux used GNU/Linux in their release materials through Debian 5, by the time Debian 7 came out, they were no longer doing this. This matches the preferred style from MOS:Linux.  &#8212;jmcgnh  (talk) (contribs)  04:45, 22 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Debian is still using GNU/Linux in Debian 8 (see /etc/os-release file). Ditto for the next release (stretch). Vincent Lefèvre (talk) 12:23, 22 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Different notion of "release materials". I consulted these pages from debian.org:
 * Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released
 * Debian 6.0 Squeeze released
 * Debian 7.0 Wheezy released
 * Debian 8 Jessie released
 * I'll go with the MOS:Linux preference under these circumstances.  &#8212;jmcgnh  (talk) (contribs)  13:57, 22 July 2016 (UTC)


 * In the pages you cite, "Linux" alone is never used (except for the kernel). It is said either "Debian GNU/Linux" or just "Debian", never "Debian Linux". MOS:Linux says:
 * The term "GNU/Linux" may still be written as part of the proper names of individual operating systems and Linux distributions.
 * which is the case here. And the "See also" links also give Debian as an example where "GNU/Linux" should be used instead of just "Linux". Vincent Lefèvre (talk) 14:58, 22 July 2016 (UTC)


 * BTW, the "GNU/Linux" has been dropped on the announcement page for Debian 6.0 because it now also covers Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (in addition to Debian GNU/Linux). Vincent Lefèvre (talk) 15:05, 22 July 2016 (UTC)



Debian GNU/Linux --Eupsychos (talk) 22:14, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Wikipedians !

My intention was to precise that the FVWM X session is running in Debian with Linux kernel by using the full name "Debian GNU/Linux" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eupsychos (talk • contribs) 22:11, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
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