An emulation of an early-1990s Linux GUI in a browser <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nostalgic-developer-recreates-the-1994-linux-desktop-as-a-modern-web-app-for-your-browser-open-source-project-brings-old-school-cde-interface-back-from-the-dead-and-features-classic-90s-web-browser-text-editor-and-more>. Actually, who says CDE was ever “dead”? GNU created their own version of the OSF Motif GUI toolkit, called “Lesstif”, and it continues to be available in Linux distros to this day.
On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
An emulation of an early-1990s Linux GUI in a browser < https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nostalgic-developer-recreates-th...
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Funky! Brings back memories from doing my Linux admin under CDE... :-) Cheers, Peter
On Sun, 1 Mar 2026 12:58:00 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Funky! Brings back memories from doing my Linux admin under CDE... :-)
Which distro? I was administering DEC Alphas for the Physics Department in the latter 1990s, and they had Motif/CDE on them. That was the origin of the multiple-desktops idea, of course. Though I can’t remember if you could set it to have any number other than four. Later, when we went Linux on Dell servers, we switched to SuSE, and as you may know, they were KDE fans.
On Sun, 1 Mar 2026 12:58:00 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Funky! Brings back memories from doing my Linux admin under CDE... :-) Which distro?
Oh dear, that was supposed to read Unix, not Linux. :-) It was IBM AIX. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ Mobile +64 22 190 2375 https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/peter.reutemann http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 08:42:04 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
On Sun, 1 Mar 2026 13:28:43 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Sun, 1 Mar 2026 12:58:00 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Funky! Brings back memories from doing my Linux admin under CDE... :-)
Which distro?
Oh dear, that was supposed to read Unix, not Linux. :-)
It was IBM AIX.
That was probably the most un-Unix-like of all the Unixes. It didn’t seem to keep configs in normal files in /etc, you had to use that proprietary “smit” command to do all the configuring ...
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