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The article notes Gnome didn't have it's own window manager yet.

I'm slightly surprised it's using TWM, rather than something like FVWM95, I'm sure I used an ancient version of Red Hat that used that, but it might be the author's preference.

(Edit: another poster says FVWM95 was the release after this...)

I remember when GNOME used the Sawfish window manager. This was after that but before Metacity.

IIRC on this version of Red Hat TWM was the default window manager installed. FVWM, WindowMaker, and maybe Enlightenment shipped on the disc. Again IIRC the next version (5.2) used FVWM95 by default. Maybe 6.0 shipped with FVWM95 by default. It's been a minute.

5.2 had FVWM95 as the default. There were menu options to restart in AfterStep and something else, probably twm. That was my first Linux. I also compiled qvwm, mlvwm, IceWM from scratch. And ultimately settled on Blackbox.

Gnome used to run with E and Sawfish.