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Actually, Red Hat is not the only company who ported CDE to Linux (and the corresponding product, TED, was not a Red Hat's but rather a TriTeal's one).

The other CDE for Linux vendor was Xi Graphics, formerly X Inside (http://www.xig.com/). Their CDE 1.x based product was MaXimum CDE and a CDE 2.x based one DeXtop GUI. Both are discontinued now. AndrewBass 12:17, 11 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

I'd think since there is (still active) discussion of Open Sourcing CDE, some mention could be made of Open Motif- which is under a "royalty sharing" lisence, free for Open Source projects using it. Cuvtixo 15:32, 25 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

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I see the image still exists, and if I go to its page, it says it's linked to by two other articles -- and doesn't have explicit fair-use rationales for either. Can anyone add fair-use rationales, or just the uploader?--NapoliRoma (talk) 14:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Everyone can add fair-use rationales. I added rationales for all three main articles that link to the image. I hope it is ok now and nobody complains. Ghettoblaster (talk) 16:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

DECwindows redirects here, but is not explicitly mentioned anywhere in the article. Also, a quick poke around seems to show that DECwindows is not the same as CDE -- it's the Digital name for their X subsystem on both VMS and UNIX, which did eventually gain a "DECwindows CDE" GUI.

So, should DECwindows be fleshed out into its own article, or should there at least be a brief mention on this page that "DECwindows CDE" was one DECwindows display option?--NapoliRoma (talk) 14:26, 17 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

I'd certainly like to see more information regarding DECWindows being added. Surv1v4l1st ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 04:32, 30 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

The article says that Redhat was the only distro to which CDE was ported, but I'm pretty sure that I ran/saw CDE running on SuSE in the late 1990's...

Just a thought. (Prlewis0 (talk) 09:24, 24 August 2008 (UTC))Reply

Need to update with current info on Oracle Solaris (which I will admit, have no idea whether includes CDE or not). nprice (talk) 03:45, 30 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

As a wiki editor and also one of the admins of the open-source CDE project (and the creator of the 2006 open-source petition), I'll try to keep my edits limited to things that are uncontentious and backed by 3rd party sources.--Flibble (talk) 17:06, 9 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

"For a long period, it was the "classic" Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations." I thought it was actually standard, i.e. part of SUS - is this not the case? - David Gerard (talk) 07:17, 30 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

According to http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/testing/prodstds.htm CDE was part of the 'UNIX98 Workstation' Standard, but not part of the earlier or later standards, or the base 'UNIX98' standard.--Flibble (talk) 10:57, 30 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

I'll note that, thank you! - David Gerard (talk) 11:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

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KDE / CDE Slinkyw (talk) 18:22, 12 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

IDK--NapoliRoma (talk) 03:51, 13 November 2021 (UTC)Reply