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 GET READY TO LOSE YOUR poo poo PERMENANTLY, CDE WAS APPARENTLY USED BY COMMERCIAL UNICES Now, I'm not sure if this website is harboring a virus, or will activate an exploit, but I have used CDE and it is a very nice desktop environment. There is a dock which can be moved, supports compton (havent tried compiz yet). It includes its own out of date terminal emulator. On an i7 with 16GB of ram it's very light, and is good on the eyes. For some reason its not widely used, but would go great with an older computer and FreeBSD. Here is a snap shot of what CDE looks like.  I think it grandfathered a ton of commercial UNIX desktop environments. It is fairly stable, even on new hardware. https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/ There are instructions on how to compile CDE on their SourceForge, CDE is available on FreeBSD's package manager, but didnt work for me. I think if you add your current hostname to /etc/hosts and point it to 127.0.0.1 it'll work
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I use xfce i guess. It's okay, though there's this bug in the panel item selection list that's been there for like a decade and I feel that's indicative of the kind of progress that linux on the desktop has made in that time.
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The default color scheme is easy on the eyes, but the fonts are a dumpster fire.
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I used CDE on a 16MB HP, pretty reasonable. It's better than the junk before it but by definition it is  because of the Motif toolkit.It was determined a long time ago that computers should make things easier for humans rather than forcing humans to twist and turn to etch out a grain of more performance. Motif does not do that and it was rather expensive to license being commercial till recently.
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CDE is the desktop equivalent of a balding man wearing a wide leg, polyester, double breasted suit over a turtleneck.
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Why would you use CDE in 2017?
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What's the german word for "nostalgia, but in the kind of way that gives you flashbacks vietnam-style"? I think this thread embodies it.
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a mauve, cable-knit turtleneck, to be specific.
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I always liked the way CDE looked, but I've never taken the time to sit down and figure it out. I guess I'll just keep running my XFCE with a CDE theme on top.  
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Kazinsal posted:What's the german word for "nostalgia, but in the kind of way that gives you flashbacks vietnam-style"? Handschuhschneeballwerfer 
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Cde theme is extremely ugly but not as bad as Gnome Unity Xfce etc
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Sweet! Time to replace all this expensive Windows licensing...
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I compiled SLRN on Solaris with statically linked SLANG libraries because our admins did not want to see dynamic linked software (since people would compile non Solaris binaries on their Linux boxes at home then use it at university) and proceeded to out myself as an rear end in a top hat on usenet, OP. However an admin there liked SLRN and made it part of his powetools area. I also conned a guy to open goatse on Netscape for Solaris. Can't remember if I set that as desktop background to someone who had his X11 open. I love the CDE dock and love the Motif look. limaCAT fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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limaCAT posted:I also conned a guy to open goatse on Netscape for Solaris. Can't remember if I set that as desktop background to someone who had his X11 open. Hell yes.
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limaCAT posted:I compiled SLRN on Solaris with statically linked SLANG libraries because our admins did not want to see dynamic linked software (since people would compile non Solaris binaries on their Linux boxes at home then use it at university) and proceeded to out myself as an rear end in a top hat on usenet, OP. However an admin there liked SLRN and made it part of his powetools area. I don't think I ever asked you: what ever did you bribe the sysadmins with to convince them to let you build and distribute KDE for Solaris? These were sysadmins ready to disable your account if you left too many dangling SysV semaphores after logging out limaCAT posted:Can't remember if I set that as desktop background to someone who had his X11 open. Ah the halcyon days of unauthenticated, network-facing X11  In that same lab, I had someone open porn on my desktop remotely. Me, I never pranked anyone because I feared the fascist sysadmins too much - but not enough not to install my own software on the Windows machines. gently caress you, I'm writing my code with SciTE and building it remotely with PuTTY, and I'll UPX them so they both fit on a floppy (USB flash drives were Haram because the USB ports were powered - honest), and you'll never even find outlimaCAT posted:I love the CDE dock and love the Motif look. My favorite part of CDE, that Microsoft shamelessly stole for Windows, was the breadcrumb bar in the file manager:  And yes I really liked to have all of my hardware and software in shades of purple
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hackbunny posted:I don't think I ever asked you: what ever did you bribe the sysadmins with to convince them to let you build and distribute KDE for Solaris? I never built KDE for Solaris, just SLRN. KDE was part of Elfconfig, and IIRC that student put KDE after he graduated and became an admin there. hackbunny posted:These were sysadmins ready to disable your account if you left too many dangling SysV semaphores after logging out Oh yes. I can remember a representative from the student union coming towards me with another guy asking me if I knew a bloke from usenet (basically accusing me that if I knew the bloke from usenet, then I was one of his partners-in-crime  ).What they then told me was that the random usenet user wrote a nastygram to our admins, so that the admins gave the guy a 5 days probation. The problem was that guy-in-probation in 4 days would have discussed his master thesis and he needed computer access to finish his docs. And the usenet user had no real need to shutdown his account. I answered "oh well, I don't follow that group, and I only know that guy by proxy" and they left me. What I found later in the day was that probation-guy spammed a group with his "work-from-home" referral links, got flamed, started insulting everyone over there until the usenet-guy told him "I don't care if you are writing from an university, I am going to write to your admins".
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limaCAT posted:I never built KDE for Solaris, just SLRN. KDE was part of Elfconfig, and IIRC that student put KDE after he graduated and became an admin there. But you were involved in the KDE thing, weren't you? Like you wrote a README for it? limaCAT posted:Oh yes. I can remember a representative from the student union coming towards me with another guy asking me if I knew a bloke from usenet (basically accusing me that if I knew the bloke from usenet, then I was one of his partners-in-crime Those doggone usenet boys are at it again! Could we even get on Usenet on that network? There was an internal NNTP server but it seemed to lag several months behind and I don't think I ever managed to post anything from it? limaCAT posted:What I found later in the day was that probation-guy spammed a group with his "work-from-home" referral links Was it specifically "work from home" or those stupid pyramid schemes where you were paid for looking at ads? Unofficial CDE thread now official "reminisce about the computer lab" thread hackbunny fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Nov 7, 2017 |
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