CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3
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CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3
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Re: CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3
#2It 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.
Re: CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3
#3Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!
Re: CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3
#4It 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…
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.