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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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| RE[3]: Comment by marcp |
| By tylerdurden on 2012-08-06 18:25:09 |
| So basically you just want to keep reinventing the wheel.... |
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| RE: Very cool. |
| By tidux on 2012-08-06 18:44:07 |
| Squeeze has been the official Stable release for years now. It froze in 2010. Wheezy, the next release, is already frozen, so we won't see Debian Stable with CDE in Debian-main until 2014 or so. |
| - Score: 3 |
| This is so awesome |
| By dampfmaschinen on 2012-08-06 18:44:09 |
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This is quite a dream coming true here, at least for me. Now I can use CDE even on the go on my laptop. I'm enjoying it right now, it works wonderful. I had to build it sans documentation on Debian Squeeze, because it would stop with an error while generating the docs for Appmanager, AFAICT. On CentOS the doc was not the problem, but the whole story with the RPC implementation not being compatible. I always liked CDE, especially the configuration via Xresources made a lot more sense to me than the XML stuff the gnome folks are using. Keep it simple. |
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| CDE |
| By stsiol on 2012-08-06 18:45:29 |
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This is EXCELLENT news. CDE was is and will be the best GUI i've layed my eyes and hands upon. I was waiting for this for about a decade. Good move !! Now to see a release for ubuntu/mint :-) |
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| Great news! |
| By Mikaku on 2012-08-06 19:31:34 |
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This is really great news! My last CDE experience was with the TriTeal CDE (TDE actually) that came (optional) with the official RedHat Linux 4.2 (around 1998). So, the petition to open source CDE and Motif can be almost closed! <http://www.marutan.net/cde/> :) |
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| RE[3]: Comment by marcp |
| By zima on 2012-08-06 19:36:42 |
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> This begs the question No, it doesn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beg... :P |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE[2]: How about apps? |
| By zima on 2012-08-06 19:41:14 |
| Looks like OpenMotif (which really just seems to be one of Motif distribution methods) is also not yet open sourced... |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Comment by ssokolow |
| By zima on 2012-08-06 19:42:58 |
| W8, how did an application using non-free toolkit end up under GNU umbrella?! :P |
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| RE[3]: great! my favorite desktop!! |
| By zima on 2012-08-06 19:50:57 |
| I'm curious, why it was released now? The petitioning worked? (from http://www.marutan.net/cde/ seems there was some decent amount of good will; hm, and I just stumbled on it recently from http://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/ ) The Open Group largely lost interest, and threw it out there for those still wanting to use it and/or maintaining older apps? |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Colorful CDE |
| By zima on 2012-08-06 19:53:57 |
| Curiously, though I never used it, I still have this "that's a GUI for Real Work(tm)" perception ingrained in my mind ...maybe from ~films (non-horrible ones, WRT to depicting how computers looks like), or photos of scientific labs & experiments. |
| - Score: 3 |
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