2026-06-22 17:55 UTC
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@psychotimmy@oldbytes.space 2026-06-22 19:27
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe I remember using (and writing programs for) it on various UNIX workstations back in the 90s, but it never felt a patch on earlier, pre X11 window managers that (for example) Apollo and Sun had in the mid to late 1980s. I never grew to love CDE, but it did have the advantage of being very standard across multiple hardware platforms and vendors, making support far easier.
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@haitchfive@oldbytes.space 2026-06-22 19:57
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe CDE looks lovely there.
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@Abstract_Mage_Annastasia@tech.lgbt 2026-06-22 19:57
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe i dont know what it is but something about motif and the color schemes on cde has always been cool to me
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@wbpeckham@techhub.social 2026-06-22 20:16
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe I had been a Unix administrator for years by 1996. I'm gonna have to do some downloading and play a little! 😁
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@MSK@mastodon.xy-space.de 2026-06-22 20:17
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe Good things never die!
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@ivor@social.ivor.org 2026-06-22 20:43
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe I was always obsessed with the NeWS toolkit... Loved those round buttons!
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@hindsight@mstdn.social 2026-06-22 20:59
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe That actually takes me bak to 1992 when at uni and I got into IBM's OS/2 .. the only student not using windows.. Also around that time a friend and I got hold of Linux 0.012 I think it was, before the 0.9 beta.. got it working with SLIP, KB and some other drivers.. good times ;-))
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@cbw@techhub.social 2026-06-22 21:06
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe I want CDE on Wayland 🤭
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@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-06-23 01:45
Retro is wildly popular 💚 #FreeBSD @sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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@qwazix@bananachips.club 2026-06-23 05:16
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe and the color scheme is so soothing...
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@relistan@mstdn.social 2026-06-23 07:12
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe the desktop was nice! And that’s one of the best color schemes, too. But when I worked in the mid-90s on a Sun workstation (Sparcstation LX, then a 5), we always lamented that we didn’t have many real applications. We had FrameMaker, StarOffice (eventually), and Netscape. Finally Gimp arrived and we could work with images. The hardware and the desktops were nice, but at work most had to have a laptop or second desktop to do “productivity” stuff in a corporate environment by the 90s.
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@yodabytz@mastodon.social 2026-06-28 12:34
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe I too love the old-school look and feel.
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@cks@mastodon.social 2026-06-23 02:07
@technothrasher@universeodon.com @psychotimmy@oldbytes.space @fedops@fosstodon.org @sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe Back in the days I resented how all of those desktop environments wasted my precious and limited screen space, so although I had a SGI Indy I never used the SGI desktop, I ran tvtwm¹. ¹ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MyDesktopTour has a 1996 screenshot at the bottom. In 1996 this 1280x1024 was probably on a 19" CRT, maybe even a 17" one (I forget what was the standard size for SGI Indys).