Not sure if this has been posted but the old window manager CDE has been release as open source.

Anyone who has been on unix/qnx/solaris/aix or other commercial type systems might have remembered it or still use it today (as I do).

I remember the day when Metro was the only game in town. It cost more than the OS as I recall.

Hope to get it running on a system soon.

Their site is borked a bit but you can get to sourceforge and get the alpha file. www.cdesktopenv.org/

If all this has been posted then a mod is welcome to delete this post.

Wow...that brings back memories... Thanks for the link

We used Solaris 10 with CDE on the CS department I am registered! (until they switched them to Debian) I will definitely try to install it on my PC.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but CDE never appealed to me. Saw it in OpenSolaris, quickly changed to Gnome.

CDE was my first introduction to a graphical environement. Was running on dec alphas at uni. The sys admin hated it though and compiled fvwm for us: never went back.

Evo2.

CDE is such an extreme UI that it instantly splits people into two crowds - you either love it or hate it. I am in the first group. Although I've seen and used CDE in two environments - AIX and Solaris. Liked AIX color scheme but didn't like Solaris colors that much. Still CDE is a missing piece to create a true old-school unix experience on top of modern OS (like Linux or FreeBSD). Some people simply like old-school I've always had good memories about big beige box from IBM that had RS/6000 F50 written on it.

Here is a good article highlighting the good points about CDE - it all about usability with zero bling.
http://www.osnews.com/story/18969/pt_VII_CDE/page1/

xfce4 is better.

No. Xfce needs a lot more RAM.

Xfce is not a WM. It's not better. It's like alternative version of Gnome 2 - fat DE.

BTW when will this version of CDE be available in Arch repos?