CDE - Common Desktop Environment Reviews

Very good spirit to maintain this desktop environment and it must be quite a huge work. It's not difficult to add apps to the apps manager but a bit difficult to link icons to them. An occasion to look at MWM and related projects (EMWM), Xresources and read man pages also. So it's really unix ! Well a bit of nostalgia and it made me rediscover old X tools like xclipboard.

When I was young, I could not afford any commercial UNIX workstation running CDE. I used to dream about CDE while typing away on MS Word on Windows 3.11. It's amazing to see how much desktop scene has evolved and CDE has aged quite well

Please keep going. Good job. I propose an Common Desktop Environment ISO for tests.

Really good to see CDE still working. My Raspberry Pi now looks just like an old HP 9000 or RS/6000. Excellent.

I use CDE on my home laptop running FreeBSD. Thank you

I really like CDE. Thank you for your work

I like CDE.

Classic!

Nostalgic, and great Desktop, i love work in that

this is still the best desktop you can get for Linux, simple, fast, efficient, intuitive!

CDE may be old, but it is still a feature rich desktop environment for its age that isn't very demanding on resources. It supports multiple desktops, a dock, and a suite of common programs. After setup all of these features are ready out-of-the box. There's also that nostalgic vibe, if that appeals to you. * Some weaknesses of CDE compared to other desktop environments include lack of support and flexibility in common customization features and the lack of some full-screen application support. Some features found in more modern DEs require some additional configuration, workarounds, or additional software. * Compiling CDE isn't too difficult, but it's easy to miss prereqs and sometimes some post-install troubleshooting is needed. I recommend manually checking that each prereq is installed before attempting compiling and installing CDE. Therefore, I would generally recommend CDE to interested power users, unless if you're interested in a possible learning experience. Reading the wiki first will help avoid a lot of potential common issues however. In my experience installation gets smoother with every release. * Doing some tasks in CDE may be different than what most people expect if they are used to other desktop environments, but the help files and online resources help new users learn any differences that they can't figure out themselves. The wiki on this site is a good resource.

Awsome!

Having an old mac mini ppc and just installed Debian and then CDE on top of that --- works good. The 100% unix retro feeling is a blast from the past when I began at the university 1995,, sitting at sparc stations doing simple programming. It was at the time when one was obsessively pushing "save" when writing a lab-report on a PC using MS Word --->the days of frequent blue screens and general crashes. Since Iḿ a newbie on linux in general and CDE in particular I consider myself lucky to get all this up & going in just one cold windy autumn Saturday in the year 2016.

This' a son-of-a-gun of a project.

Very pleased to have CDE running on FreeBSD 10.2--thanks so much for sharing this and providing the excellent instructions. Having CDE is so much retro fun--it's like I am back in the 90s ...notes from my configuration: 1) to enable the display, had to update /etc/hosts to include the computer name 2) to enable CDE at login after re-boot, included the following (chose this over making rc.d script) at /etc/rc.local: /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin & 3) to enable VNC, in .vnc/xstartup used the following: /usr/dt/bin/dtwm &

I've always loved CDE's simple, clean, vintage design. Now I can run it on Debian like some kind of awesome pimp. Thanks for getting this source distro together and putting the build resources up in the wiki. Now if I can figure out how to do my part, I'd like to do a Debian-based distro with CDE as its default desktop.

Wobderfull I have installed it works like a charme.

Doesn't recognize PAM at all on RHEL 6. Authenticates only with local accounts. Not a win for the enterprise community. Had to hack through to get it to compile as well.

Wonderful to have CDE - back at home after years. Thanks a lot to the team! Best, Fausto

now free on all UNIX-based and compatible systems GOOD, now is there an illumos-based port? (say on OpenIndiana)

I absolutely love this desktop environment! It's my favourite, and I use it every day for almost everything. I still use MATE for some things, but CDE is my main one. Once it's more polished, I'll likely change this to 5 stars. Tip: If you play Minecraft, it runs better in CDE than any other desktop environment.

CDE is awesome .. FreeBSD works good (tested it) :) OpenBSD --- well im still waiting on my feedback as i came across a error, but i should get it to work with a bit of help from the community... NOW it needs a OpenIndiana port , so that it will make use the system again, as far it having really only gnome2 , i have no interest. so maybe someone in the Oi community can port CDE to Oi-151a8 eh, maybe alot of people will pick it up.. not everyone is a gnome2 fan.. this is why im here i love CDE , and why im going back on OpenBSD. :) I can't wait for this to become Stable and thanks CDE-Dev to give this to us.. you make alot of users happy :D

As someone who purchased the old Xi Graphics DeXtop CDE for Linux back in the day, I'm glad to see this become available. I too am writing my review from a PowerPC Mac, a G5 in this case running Ubuntu 12.04 and CDE! Very happy to see this!

Very very cool. For those who are interested, I've created some slackbuilds that will do most of the installation at slackermedia.info/slackbuilds

If I will be able to install and use CDE on my linux machines, it will be the best Christmas present ever. I am sick and tired of the windowism-infested window managers that Linux offers today.