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I distinctly remember using CDE back in 2005 on a Sun Ray 2 Thin Terminals. It was serviceable however I must confess I had a hard time getting used to it, espe
by uk_programmer 7y ago
I distinctly remember using CDE back in 2005 on a Sun Ray 2 Thin Terminals. It was serviceable however I must confess I had a hard time getting used to it, especially after using Gnome 2 and KDE 3.
The one great thing about them was that you could use a chip and pin style card. If you used this card when logging in it would associate your session with the chip and pin card and when you logged into another client (by using the card) your exisiting session was moved across. Which I thought was pretty novel at the time.
When I have time I might give this a try out (for nothing other than nostalgia reasons).
- passthejoe 7y agoI shouldn't have gotten rid of my Sun Sparcstation 20. It ran CDE, and you could also run an early, super-slow GNOME.
- uk_programmer 7y agoI did the same with a Sun Blade 150 (gave it to a friend). They are pretty expensive to pick up now. Solaris 8 (maybe 9) was on there and I think I ended up running on of the BSDs on there. The machine wasn't fast (not compared to an Athlon XP 2500+) but it was a nice unique unix workstation that ran solidly.