Actual CDE is heavier, on Linux, but I'm sure there's a good reason. This thing ran well in 32MB of RAM, 40 years ago.
I feel NetBSD should adopt it by default. It works, and it would be fitting.
rhabarba 3 days ago [-]
I agree.
CDE being heavier is probably mostly caused by its large functionality. After all, NsCDE is mostly an FVWM colour scheme, while CDE comes with all the bells and whistles.
rhabarba 3 days ago [-]
Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!
Rendered at 23:47:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
https://www.theregister.com/2012/08/09/cde_goes_opensource/
... is still being maintained... while the very clever hand-crafted FOSS recreation, NsCDE, built on FVMW and things, lies slowly mouldering.
I compared them:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/28/battle_of_the_retro_d...
Actual CDE is heavier, on Linux, but I'm sure there's a good reason. This thing ran well in 32MB of RAM, 40 years ago.
I feel NetBSD should adopt it by default. It works, and it would be fitting.
CDE being heavier is probably mostly caused by its large functionality. After all, NsCDE is mostly an FVWM colour scheme, while CDE comes with all the bells and whistles.