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SillyUsername ◴[04 Sep 25 06:35 UTC] No.45124248[source]▶

I miss the days of Sun Solaris' CDE desktop.

Afterstep looks too much like Stardock's Window Blinds from around 2000 (see the weird glass effect, font etc), but Etolie seems to nail the aesthetic for me.

I hope this comes back, I'd love to use it on an old netbook I have for accessing my servers remotely.

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gnoack ◴[04 Sep 25 06:47 UTC] No.45124320[source]▶

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CDE was open sourced a while back: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/

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1. lproven ◴[04 Sep 25 11:42 UTC] No.45126160[source]▶

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CDE is included as one of the options in Sparky Linux:

https://sparkylinux.org/cde-common-desktop-environment/

For me, it's a bit broken, though; I can't get the terminal to launch, and without that, you can't do much.

I wrote a comparison of CDE and modern recreation NotSoCDE:

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

A chap I know led the campaign to open-source it and I wrote about it at the time:

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

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