LessTif is the Hungry Programmers' version of OSF/Motif®. LessTif is source compatible with OSF/Motif® 1.2, meaning that the same source should compile with both and work exactly the same. LessTif is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). For further information on the LGPL, see the GNU web site. You might also want to check out The Open Source Web for a little more information about the Free Software/Open Source philosophy.


  LessTif Status
  The current version of LessTif is 0.86.9 as of October 29, 1998. Download the code here.


  Latest LessTif News
  We have a brand new page describing Known problems with releases of LessTif. Unfortunately, there are some for 0.86.5 ...
  LessTif in the press once more : in an article ( Godzilla vs. Your System) in Performance Computing, Eric Foster-Johnson writes about Netscape's freely available browser, Mozilla. The tests he does are on SlackWare 3.5 which includes LessTif 0.83 (ancient !). While he reports about some problems which we've since fixed, he concludes that the program looks like a commercial application with a clean, crisp user interface. (By the way, he couldn't get Mozilla to work on a commercial UNIX® system with real Motif.)
  Danny wrote an article on LessTif for the Motif Zone, a free online publication about Motif and X. The article focuses on how we got started with LessTif, what it aims to accomplish, where we are now, and why we need people to help.  
  LessTif in a Linux Gazette article  
  The lesstif project needs your help. We need to more fully document the remaining differences between OSF/Motif and LessTif, so we're looking for people who have access to OSF/Motif on some platforms, but use LessTif under others. If you use LessTif and feel like contributing something back, but don't know where to begin, here's your chance. Click here to find out more.  
  The new web site design is up and Marcus Butler is our newest core team member.  
  Jon A. Christopher is our new Releasemeister/core team member.  
  Read Jon Christopher's slashdot.org editorial  



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