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45 <h1 style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: 3em;margin-bottom: 0;">i3</h1>
46 <h1 style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 2em;margin-bottom: 0;">improved tiling wm</h1>
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56 <a href="/docs/">Docs</a>
59 <a href="/downloads/">Downloads</a>
62 <a href="/screenshots/">Screens</a>
65 <a href="/bugs">Bugtracker</a>
68 <a href="/contact/">Contact</a>
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81 i3 is currently distributed in the following operating systems/distributions:
86 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/i3">Debian GNU/Linux</a>
89 <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24720">Arch Linux</a>
90 (in <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/">AUR</a>), maintained by Atsutane
93 <a href="http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/sunrise/x11-wm/i3">Gentoo Linux</a>
94 (in <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise">sunrise</a>), maintained by mimi_vx / Moredread<br>
95 See also: <a href="http://gist.github.com/89277">i3-9999.ebuild</a>
98 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-wm/i3/">FreeBSD</a> (x11-wm/i3), maintained by dhn
101 <a href="http://pkgsrc.se/wip/i3">NetBSD</a> (wip/i3 in <a href="http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/">pkgsrc-wip</a>)
104 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/i3/">OpenBSD</a>, maintained by bapt
107 <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/i3">Ubuntu Linux</a> (in karmic/universe)
114 The current stable version is 3.γ (transcribed 3.c because many systems still can’t
115 handle UTF-8 in version numbers).
120 <a href="/downloads/i3-3.c.tar.bz2">i3-3.c.tar.bz2</a>
121 (<a href="/downloads/i3-3.c.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>), Version 3.γ, 107 KiB, 2009-08-19,
122 <a href="/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-3.c.txt">release notes</a>
126 <a href="/downloads/i3-3.b.tar.bz2">i3-3.b.tar.bz2</a>
127 (<a href="/downloads/i3-3.b.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>), Version 3.β, 96 KiB, 2009-06-26,
128 <a href="/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-3.b.txt">release notes</a>
132 <a href="/downloads/i3-3.a-bf2.tar.bz2">i3-3.a-bf2.tar.bz2</a>
133 (<a href="/downloads/i3-3.a-bf2.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>), Version 3.α-bf2, 65 KiB, 2009-05-03,
134 hotfix for a problem with -bf1
137 <a href="/downloads/i3-3.a-bf1.tar.bz2">i3-3.a-bf1.tar.bz2</a>
138 (<a href="/downloads/i3-3.a-bf1.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>), Version 3.α-bf1, 65 KiB, 2009-05-03,
139 <a href="/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-3.a-bf1.txt">release notes</a>
142 <a href="/downloads/i3-3.a.tar.bz2">i3-3.a.tar.bz2</a>
143 (<a href="/downloads/i3-3.a.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>), Version 3.α, 50 KiB, 2009-03-15
147 <h2>Development version</h2>
150 Use <a href="http://git-scm.com/">git</a> to follow the latest changes:
154 $ git clone git://code.stapelberg.de/i3
158 If you prefer to download a tarball, or if you cannot use git for whatever reason,
159 you may download the current master branch from
160 <a href="http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3/snapshot/i3-master.tar.bz2">
161 http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3/snapshot/i3-master.tar.bz2
165 <h2>Announce mailing list</h2>
168 If you want to be notified when a new version of i3 is released, please subscribe
169 to the announce mailing list by sending a mail to <code>i3-announce-subscribe@i3.zekjur.net</code>