On 25 Feb, Ulrich Fahrenberg wrote:
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2164
>
> There is no really new information on the date-of-birth of FVWM, but
> he's saying that FVWM means `Feeble Virtual Window Manager'...
>
> I prefer `feline'...
I've followed FVWM for quite a number of years. The "feeble" referred
to its memory footprint, which was how FVWM was "marketed" in the early
days.
We can credit Robert with the concept of WM "module" programs: the
first one was GoodStuff, which was rewritten (or renamed) as FvwmButtons
and possibly FvwmWharf.
For the "birthdate" of Fvwm, you may want to check google for the first
announcement of FVWM's availability to comp.windows.x.announce (I
remember seeing that first post, actually, and it was either in 1992 or
1993). I do know that I had no problems running the first release of
FVWM on my RS/6000 running X11R3, X11R4, and (finally) X11R5. I did
send Robert a few patches where I added #ifdef's for AIX for things like
<sys/select.h>. Somewhere I have a QIC-150 tape that has the original
distribution, since I have never thrown out any backup tapes that I've
made.
After Robert left FVWM development, Chuck Hines took over, and he passed
the reins to Brady Montz (sp?), who passed it on to the current cadre of
developers on the fvwm-workers list.
(This history is entirely unofficial, obviously, and purely from my
possibly faulty memory. A google search and FVWM mailing list archive
search can probably give exact dates for the various changes that FVWM
has gone through.)
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Received on Mon Feb 25 2002 - 11:54:10 GMT