On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 7:36 PM Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
Hi, based on the multitude of answers and options received, you can also consider the magnificent old days CDE, now open sourced.
CDE can actually be installed on Centos 7 through yum:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dcantrel/cde/
Just install the repo file and "yum install cde"
That gives you CDE version 2.3.
I installed it on an VirtualBox image that I use for testing stuff and it looks pretty cool.
Nice to know ;-) Compiling it from surces needed some time and several dependencies... I will try. I see that there are Fedora 28/29 repos too. Probably lacking dbus and other integrations, but nice to see it running
I missed out on CDE when it was the current thing; I was still using MSDOS (and DesqView) until about 1998 when I decided that DOS wasn't going to cut it in the brave new world of the Internet (though it worked great for FidoNet) and got a Windows 98 machine. Decided I didn't like that much either so a couple of months after that I reformatted it and installed Red Hat Linux, and I've been here ever since.
Optimal choice!