Keep in mind that CDE is not exactly bare bones desktop environment (although in comparison to KDE/Gnoome it is not especially resource hungry). When compared t

Keep in mind that CDE is not exactly bare bones desktop environment (although in comparison to KDE/Gnoome it is not especially resource hungry). When compared to things like LXDE or Xfce which really are window managers bundled with few applications CDE is real integrated desktop environment with object model, probably only two other portable unix desktop environments are KDE and Gnome. Also, 15 years ago 256MB RAM in laptop was on the high-end side of things and 128MB was completely sufficient to run KDE/Gnome with Mozilla, Evolution and what not.