Desktop Organization

[Liam Proven]

On 10 August 2014 16:58, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> Well *I* *never* used any version of MS-Windows.  The first 'desktop' system I
> used was DECWindows on a VaxStation 2000 running VMS.  I then moved to
> DECWindows on DECStations running Ultrix.  I now use FVWM2 in MWM mode on
> Linux machines (CentOS 5 is the current version I use).
>
> ('DECWindows' was DEC's rebranding of X11/Motif and used the Motif Window
> Manager [MWM].)

Fair enough.

I've used DECwindows myself -- I was a VAX sysadmin for a time in the
1990s -- and while it was based on X11 and Motif, the actual desktop
was CDE, the Common Desktop Environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

In which case, you might be interested to know that it is now FOSS and
there is a Linux version, ported by a friend of mine in London.

http://cdesktopenv.sourceforge.net/

It happened as a result of this initiative:

http://marutan.net/cde/

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