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