On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 7:36 PM Frank Cox <theatre at 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!