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| CDE released as open source |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-06 00:00:00 |
| We have some very good news for those of us with a love for the Common Desktop Environment. I'm a huge fan of CDE - I've even dedicated an article to it - so I'm excited about this. CDE has been released as open source under the LGPL, and can be downloaded as of today for Debian and Ubuntu. Motif will follow later. |
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| Colorful CDE |
| By wigry on 2012-08-06 06:48:56 |
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I first used CDE on AIX workstation and really fell in love with the color themes. Specially the terminal like this one. Haven't found the color themes for other DE-s and now I finally have an opportunity to try it on Linux Absolutely beautiful for me :) http://www.pexus.com/ScreenShots... |
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| Good for the community, I'll pass. |
| By moondevil on 2012-08-06 06:49:43 |
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This decision is very good for the open source community and CDE fans. Me, I'll pass as I never liked it, specially because on the enterprise 15 years ago there was no other choice. While at home I could enjoy Afterstep, Window Maker and Enlightment, at work I had to use the dull CDE. |
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| How about apps? |
| By ThomasFuhringer on 2012-08-06 07:36:06 |
| I understand it is also a widget toolkit. Are there any relevant applications based on it? |
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| RE: How about apps? |
| By wigry on 2012-08-06 07:44:40 |
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Motif is the widget toolkit and currently it is still not yet open sourced, but there is OpenMotif and actually that is used to build CDE currently. Here seems to be a list of apps using Motif toolkit: http://www.openmotif.org/wiki/ra... Edited 2012-08-06 07:46 UTC |
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| Nice but |
| By tuma324 on 2012-08-06 07:48:55 |
| Could this be ported to Wayland? |
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| Comment by priit |
| By priit on 2012-08-06 08:12:47 |
| The e-mail about the news was quite unexpected but nonetheless very good! Signed the petition a few years ago, glad to see it worked. VirtualBox, behold! |
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| awesome! |
| By NuxRo on 2012-08-06 08:25:23 |
| go CDE! |
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| Is CDE network transparent? |
| By renox on 2012-08-06 09:04:07 |
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It was a long time ago but if memory servers one CDE application (on Solaris) wasn't network transparent, when you use X11 you get used to export display as you like so I was quite annoyed when I discovered that this CDE application didn't work as expected with export display.. So my question is: is CDE network transparent? |
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| good news |
| By ffrade on 2012-08-06 09:14:11 |
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Good news, although I remember being shocked when I was forced to change to CDE from olwm. A bit strange anyway: - The download is an alpha version - I have not found any reference in the OpenGroup web page to this new license status. - The domain cdesktopenv.org is owned by Peter Howkins, who also owns the domain www.marutan.net with some petitions to opensource CDE http://www.marutan.net/cde |
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| Comment by Licaon_Kter |
| By Licaon_Kter on 2012-08-06 09:16:55 |
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"So far I've built and run CDE on the following: ... 5. Debian Squeeze 6.0 ARMv5el, Linux 3.1.9+ (Raspberry Pi)" ( http://sourceforge.net/p/cdeskto... ) Me gusta :D I'll try a build on Raspbian asap. |
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