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CDE Open Sourced

Posted by samzenpus on from the set-it-free dept.

First time accepted submitter christurkel writes "CDE, the Common Desktop Project, has been open sourced by the Open Group. CDE was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. You can find the source here. It has been tested on Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu. Testers are encouraged to join the project. Motif will follow in a few months once some legal issues are sorted out."

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  1. Re:AH AH AH AH by Ginger+Unicorn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that the Count from sesame street having an orgasm?

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  2. 15 again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, to be 15 again.

    (You have no clue what CDE is or what era it comes from, do you?)

  3. Re:AH AH AH AH by hjf · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Create ugly environment
    2. ???
    3. Profit
    4. Become irrelevant
    5. Open source it

  4. Re:That looks... by Xiaran · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah. I see you are someone who has never used Open Look.

  5. Better than GNOME 3 by Alex+Belits · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really hate to say it, but CDE, the clunkiest desktop environment in the history of computing, is still better than GNOME 3.

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  6. Re:That looks... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    CDE! GOD YES!

    They say that good things come to those that wait, I have WAITED for 20 years, to see this day!

    :-)

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  7. Re:AH AH AH AH by bsDaemon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know. It seems like a perfectly reasonable solution to Gnome3 or Unity.