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-i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. It is primarily
-targeted at advanced users and developers. Based upon the experiences we made
-when wanting to hack/fix wmii, we agreed upon the following goals for i3:
+i3 is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager">tiling
+window manager</a>, completely written from scratch. The target platforms are
+GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems, our code is Free and Open Source Software
+(FOSS) under the BSD license. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and
+developers. Based upon the experiences we made when wanting to hack/fix wmii,
+we agreed upon the following goals for i3:
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The usual elitism amongst minimal window managers: Don’t be bloated, don’t be fancy
- (simple borders are the most decoration we want to have), don’t add support for Xft
- and blurred fonts.
+ (simple borders are the most decoration we want to have).
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However, we do not enforce unnecessary limits such as a maximum amount of source lines
of code. If it needs to be a bit bigger, it will be.