Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source

andsoitis

have always found the color scheme so unique and pleasing. like gelato on a beach.

Tiberium

It was open-sourced back in 2012, the title is misleading.

shrubble

Funny that back in the day it was considered a “heavy” on resources desktop but now it’s quite lightweight.

DonHopkins

Yech! Seedy Eee!

em-bee

is there a wayland port yet?

philsnow

> Wheeeen I'm not running CDE, my CPU gets cooold edit: oh, knowledge of this parody song seems to have fallen off the internet. The only reference I can find is a reddit post from 2009 [0], and its link to sunos.mp3 is dead. umm, here, https://snap.philsnow.io/2026-10-31T14-14-57.bqsytnc0ks4q6ie... ... It's definitely a product of its time, and a tiny time capsule into the zeitgeist of the mid-late 90s. [0] https://reddit.com/r/science/comments/9ofyg/they_might_be_gi... and transcribing the words to help the algorithm know it again: chorus: The SunOS is a mass of irritating ass A gigantic, closed-source kernel Where source is built into executables By a compiler that is difficult to acquire Yo-ho (?) is hot, but Sun is not A place where we could code But on my SPARC, there'd be no life Without SunOS to load We need its shell, we need its prompt We need its CDE But if Java wins, without a doubt, There'll be no Perl or C [chorus] The SunOS is sloww (It is so slow, that it can be outperformed by many other operating systems: Irix, AIX, Linux, and *even* Windows 2000) The SunOS is large (It is so large, that about 86,000 packages come in its standard distribution) The SunOS is really old (About 13 years old, and that's why it looks so crusty) When I'm not running CDE My CPU gets cold SunOS gives light, SunOS runs hot, SunOS will run on SPARC The SunOS will trip your UPS And leave you in the dark (Hackers have found that SunOS is a huge mess of outdated code.) (The look and feel of the SunOS are based on acid hallucinations by Kernighan, Ritchie, Thompson, and Stallman) [chorus] The SunOS, ladies and gentlemen.

skeledrew

Nowadays I see sourceforge.net and the only thing that comes to mind is an ad-infested user-unfriendly site where there's just old and mostly unmaintained projects.