CDE - Common Desktop Environment
The Common Desktop Environment, the classic UNIX desktop
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Description
The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time.
For support, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/
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- X11 Desktop Environment
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User Reviews
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cdesktopenv is small and works nicely
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Fantastic, CDE has been a favorite of mine since using it in the late 90s on Solaris. After owning a bunch of old SPARC stuff over the years, I've realized it was CDE that I missed, not Solaris. XFCE foot the bill for a long while, alas, I always pined for CDE. So happy to have it back, and running it on hardware of the late 90s variety with up to date software via Debian is simply beautiful. Thank you to all who worked to bring this wonderful code to the free software community!
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Although I'm more than happy with current desktop environments, there is always a niche for this legendary fellow. I will try to get it running on my Rasperry Pi, see how it performs compared to modern "lightweight" environments. It is a wise decision to make the sourcecode available under an open-source license. I very much appreciate this. Thank you!
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It has been a long time since I used CDE! I would very much like to see an active project spring up. To be honest I think this old dog has some tricks left up it's sleeves that could prove useful with some TLC. CDE may look Odd... but it is one seriously SANE desktop. In an age were insanity seems to be running amok, this could be refreshing.
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This is great news for us that love those retro desktops as a nice change from those bling-y desktops such as KDE and GNOME. Definitely will be installing this on my Debian Sid system to play with :)
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for users of window managers like Fluxbox or LXDE, this is never too little or too late - i'm really curious how soon people will create a .deb binary package of it! :)