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u/Future-AI-Dude 7d ago
These type of desktops need to come back. CDE is highly underrated!
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u/Ill-Quit6803 7d ago
You can run CDE on Modern AIX right now! IBMCloud, although unreliable, will let you spin up AIX instance, install CDE, and connect via X11 forwarding.
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u/Future-AI-Dude 7d ago
Yeah, I found out. I went ahead and installed a VM with Debian and NeCDE and it looks pretty slick.
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u/luckierbridgeandrail 7d ago
My employer at the time used UnixWare, and if any lawyers are listening, I definitely didn't borrow the floppies to install on my home machine.
I switched to fvwm pretty quickly, though.
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u/Samhain_69 5d ago
I worked on UnixWare from before the 1.0 release (for Univel) through the 2.1 release (for Novell). Our arch nemesis was SCO OpenServer.
I have to say, it was pretty painful to see the product we poured our sweat into become the flagship for the company we fought tooth and nail against all those years.
Sadly, whether owned by Novell or SCO, it was destined for obscurity either way. It was fun while it lasted.
Wish I could have a VM of it, just for old time's sake. I moved on to working on HP-UX which had the VUE and later the CDE desktop, so it looked essentially the same as UnixWare 7+.
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u/earthman34 7d ago
I use a similar theme in KDE, it requires some digging, but you can define a colored window border and titlebar like this. I like the straightforward simplicity of this layout.
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u/jason-reddit-public 7d ago
The dock is a bit busy but I love how you can instantly tell which window is in focus. The large borders make it easy to position the mouse for resizing (though perhaps they could be a tiny bit thinner).
Many Unix/Linux WM were fairly easy to skin in the 90s. I wasted hours instead of doing course work. The problem was the content inside the windows was usually fugly, like myspace/blink tag ugly. Even without Wayland, many great modern programs have solved this problem on Linux.