top | item 46064990 CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3 43 points| marcodiego | 3 months ago |sourceforge.net 3 comments order hn newest lproven|3 months ago It is highly pleasing and apt to me that the real original CDE, open sourced after a petition by Peter Howkinshttps://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. rhabarba|3 months 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. rhabarba|3 months ago Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!
lproven|3 months ago It is highly pleasing and apt to me that the real original CDE, open sourced after a petition by Peter Howkinshttps://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. rhabarba|3 months 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.
rhabarba|3 months 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.
lproven|3 months ago
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.
rhabarba|3 months ago
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.
rhabarba|3 months ago