Getting Nostalgic With Common Desktop Environment on a Modern Linux Distro
CDE used the dtwm window manager, which was an X Window System window manager based upon the Motif window manager, mwm.- Community submission by Editor (9to6linux) on
CDE used the dtwm window manager, which was an X Window System window manager based upon the Motif window manager, mwm. It provided mwm compatible window management functionality to the user or programmer, including functions that facilitated control of elements of window state.
Recently, I installed the old Common Desktop Environment (CDE) on a SparkyLinux machine. It was the old window environment for UNIX back in the 1990s. I kept using it until it was finally discontinued in the early 2000s. I remember using CDE on AIX, HP-UX, DG/UX, and I even got it to run on Slackware and RedHat distros running on a ‘386.
Installing CDE had no real purpose, but I miss it sometimes. Feeling a bit nostalgic, I decided it would be nice to see again. It can’t handle some of the newer, more powerful programs today, but it was still nice to play with. How easily I can be entertained.
Here’s a bit of history for you. CDE was a product of cooperation between companies – jointly developed by Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Novell, and Sun Microsystems. It was adopted as the standard operating environment by these companies and many others in the UNIX workstation market.