Battle of the retro Unix desktops: NsCDE pitted against CDE
If the real CDE is too much hard work for you or for your computer, there's a new version of the Not So Common Desktop Environment.
Very nearly a decade ago, we reported that the official Common Desktop Environment had been made open source. In its day, CDE was pretty much the unified desktop environment for commercial Unix OSes: it ran on almost every proprietary Unix and Unix-like OS there was, from IBM AIX to DEC's Tru64, even on DEC's OpenVMS.
