CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3 (opens in new tab)

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43 pointsmarcodiego3mo ago3 comments

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It is highly pleasing and apt to me that the real original CDE, open sourced after a petition by Peter Howkins

https://www.theregister.com/2012/08/09/cde_goes_opensource/

... is still being maintained... while the very clever hand-crafted FOSS recreation, NsCDE, built on FVMW and things, lies slowly mouldering.

I compared them:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/28/battle_of_the_retro_d...

Actual CDE is heavier, on Linux, but I'm sure there's a good reason. This thing ran well in 32MB of RAM, 40 years ago.

I feel NetBSD should adopt it by default. It works, and it would be fitting.

rhabarba3mo ago

I agree.

CDE being heavier is probably mostly caused by its large functionality. After all, NsCDE is mostly an FVWM colour scheme, while CDE comes with all the bells and whistles.

rhabarba3mo ago

Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!

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lproven3mo ago

It is highly pleasing and apt to me that the real original CDE, open sourced after a petition by Peter Howkins

https://www.theregister.com/2012/08/09/cde_goes_opensource/

... is still being maintained... while the very clever hand-crafted FOSS recreation, NsCDE, built on FVMW and things, lies slowly mouldering.

I compared them:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/28/battle_of_the_retro_d...

Actual CDE is heavier, on Linux, but I'm sure there's a good reason. This thing ran well in 32MB of RAM, 40 years ago.

I feel NetBSD should adopt it by default. It works, and it would be fitting.

rhabarba3mo ago

I agree.

CDE being heavier is probably mostly caused by its large functionality. After all, NsCDE is mostly an FVWM colour scheme, while CDE comes with all the bells and whistles.

rhabarba3mo ago

Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse