From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 11:50:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deepthought.granfalloon.com (gat1-825b.rochester.rr.com [24.161.82.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D478437B5FB for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bokonon@rochester.rr.com) Received: from localhost (caleb@localhost) by deepthought.granfalloon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA20046; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:57:24 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: deepthought.granfalloon.com: caleb owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:57:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Caleb Land X-Sender: caleb@deepthought.granfalloon.com To: Kevin Gross Cc: questions Subject: Re: CDE for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <003a01c0015e$1fc0b350$0100a8c0@144> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Kevin Gross wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm considering purchasing a commercial X-server on top of which I would > like to run some form of CDE (as in http://www.opengroup.org/desktop/). > Does anyone know of any commercial (or free) port of CDE to FreeBSD? I know > that Xi Graphics makes a Linux-only program called DeXtop and is CDE and > OpenMotif bundled together for $49.95. Is there anything similar for > FreeBSD? Will this software work under FreeBSD using Linux emulation? > > I've used CDE on Unix machines before and really like the interface. I am in > no way against solutions like Gnome or KDE, but I think for ~$50, a > rock-solid CDE is what I'm after. However, I refuse to switch to linux just > for the desktop... Any help would be appreciated. > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.1 Stable: > > FreeBSD quantum.144 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Sun Jul 30 19:49:34 > EDT 2000 root@quantum.144:/usr/src/sys/compile/QUANTUM i386 > > Thanks, > > Kevin The only experience with CDE that I have is with Solaris on x86, but I have found that xfce (http://www.xfce.org) is a nice, stable desktop that looks like CDE, and has similar functionality to CDE. If you are looking to develop on it, xfce isn't what you want. But if you're looking for a desktop environment just to run your X apps in that is stable, you should check it out (it's in the ports collection). -Caleb (bokonon@rochester.rr.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message