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33 <h1>i3 - an improved dynamic tiling window manager</h1>
40 <a href="/docs/">Documentation</a>
43 <strong><a href="/downloads/">Downloads</a></strong>
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49 <a href="/bugs">Bugtracker</a>
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62 i3 is currently distributed in the following operating systems/distributions:
67 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/i3">Debian GNU/Linux</a> (in unstable currently)
70 <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24720">Arch Linux</a>
71 (in <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/">AUR</a>), maintained by Atsutane
74 <a href="http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/sunrise/x11-wm/i3">Gentoo Linux</a>
75 (in <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise">sunrise</a>), maintained by Moredread<br>
76 See also: <a href="http://gist.github.com/89277">i3-9999.ebuild</a>
79 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-wm/i3/">FreeBSD</a> (x11-wm/i3), maintained by dhn
82 <a href="http://pkgsrc.se/wip/i3">NetBSD</a> (wip/i3 in <a href="http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/">pkgsrc-wip</a>)
89 The current stable version is 3.α-bf1 (transcribed 3.a because many systems still can’t
90 handle UTF-8 in version numbers).
95 <a href="/downloads/i3-3.a-bf2.tar.bz2">i3-3.a-bf2.tar.bz2</a>
96 (<a href="/downloads/i3-3.a-bf2.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>), Version 3.α-bf2, 65 KiB, 2009-05-03,
97 hotfix for a problem with -bf1
100 <a href="/downloads/i3-3.a-bf1.tar.bz2">i3-3.a-bf1.tar.bz2</a>
101 (<a href="/downloads/i3-3.a-bf1.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>), Version 3.α-bf1, 65 KiB, 2009-05-03,
102 <a href="/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-3.a-bf1.txt">release notes</a>
105 <a href="/downloads/i3-3.a.tar.bz2">i3-3.a.tar.bz2</a>
106 (<a href="/downloads/i3-3.a.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>), Version 3.α, 50 KiB, 2009-03-15
110 <h2>Development version</h2>
113 Use <a href="http://git-scm.com/">git</a> to follow the latest changes:
117 $ git clone git://code.stapelberg.de/i3
121 If you prefer to download a tarball, or if you cannot use git for whatever reason,
122 you may download the current master branch from
123 <a href="http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3/snapshot/i3-master.tar.bz2">
124 http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3/snapshot/i3-master.tar.bz2
128 <h2>Announce mailing list</h2>
131 If you want to be notified when a new version of i3 is released, please subscribe
132 to the announce mailing list by sending a mail to <code>i3-announce-subscribe@i3.zekjur.net</code>