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A new release of NsCDE is out as of a few days ago. It's a desktop environment which resembles CDE.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, I had no idea this existed. I sorely miss my CDE days. I can't wait to try this out. Cheers heaps!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What's the deal with DE? More and more are getting released (which is good) but I thought the other DE dev stopped and got focused on main ones: xfce, gnome, kde..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

CDE always makes me feel nostalgic for 2002/2003 when I spent my intern year working for Sun using an Ultra 5 machine with 8 Mb RAM, 6 virtual desktops and soooo many terminal windows. It was my first introduction to Unix and lead me to linux in the end.