Episode 4:06: Anything But Common

Coming up in this episode

• We do a little upgrade
• Firefox fixes a tooltip
• The History of W, V, X and CDE
• How it went
• And a new old desktop to explore

0:00 Cold Open
1:42 Lemmy's Upgraded!
10:56 A 22 Year Old Bug
15:50 Install Firefox Correctly
22:22 CDE History: Intro
24:04 CDE History: X
27:33 CDE History: OPEN LOOK
29:25 CDE History: COSE
31:28 CDE History: CDE & Others
34:24 CDE History: The Opening
36:14 CDE History: The Releases
43:02 How'd CDE Go?
1:16:00 Next Time
1:21:29 Stinger

Watch the video!
https://youtu.be/-tycNQ-Ey9Q

Banter

• The LUS Lemmy instance got an update.
  • The ansible repo switched to tagged releases. There were ⚠️breaking changes⚠️ that needed to be prepared for.
  • One of the issues Dan had is likely fixed now.
• The Bug that's old enough to drink and drive, but hopefully not at the same time!
• Dan installed Firefox from the .tar.gz download.
  • Spoiler - it updates just fine because my user is the owner in the /opt directory.

Announcements

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• The letters W, V, X, C, D and E
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The History of The Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

• The Andrew Project
• W was a windowing system that was originally written for the V operating system.
• In 1984, Robert Scheifler wrote.
• X is our “reaction” to W
• Ultrix Window Manager, or uwm
• Tom's Window Manager, which eventually became Tab Window Manager, or twm
• Open Look Specification
• The OSF narrows the search for a User Interface.
• HP and Microsoft's CXI and DEC's XUI to create the HP OSF/Motif Window Manager.
• Sun went on to build OpenWindows, which was X with OPEN LOOK on top to replace SunView.
• COSE
• In 1994, The OSF and Unix International, a body meant to standardize UNIX, merged, and in 96, merged again with X/Open into The Open Group.
• Motif and CDE became one
• KDE enters the scene.
• May of 2000 when Motif was released as OpenMotif.
• LessTif, because Less is Mo, published an initial statement
• August 6th, 2012, CDE was relicensed under the LGPL and was available on SourceForge, where it still lives today.
• After opening it up, 2.2.1 was released on March 1st, 2014.
• The final release, at least as of this recording, 2.5.1, dropped in October of 2022.

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Next Time

Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the Xfce Desktop Environment

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