On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:21:14PM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > >Not really, it wasn't a 'favorite' because it was not free. > > I'm just saying that actual CDE use was rather a niche. Most used > > something else "back in the day." > > didn't it ship by default with Sun and SGI machines?
CDE was the default not only in SunOS and Irix but, for quite a few years, also in AIX, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, Tru-64 UNIX and many other Unix flavours adopted it after its release. At that time being nonfree was not a problem (I refer to Motif), since the Unix world was made by proprietary systems which already costed a lot. I personally don't see way we should have CDE as a default in Devuan, given that the large majority of users would surely prefer something *usable* instead than a DE that was conceived 25 years ago and has not moved forward that much since then... > > I remember using it > as well something else perhaps, but very similar on Irix > > but well, I did switch to Afterstep as soon as it came out > > and recommend to keep an eye on GNUStep, slow but steady... > I agree on keeping an eye on GNUStep but, despite I am a WMaker user, I wouldn't recommend it as a default in Devuan either. HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
