CentOS - Nov 2018 - Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:03 PM Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/
> 
> That's still several years in the future, of course.
> 
> I use Mate on all of my machines rather than Gnome or KDE and I'm sure
> many of you fine folks do the same.
> 
> But it's interesting nonetheless.
> 
Hi, based on the multitude of answers and options received, you can also
consider the magnificent old days CDE, now open sourced.
Here a screenshot of version 2.2.0d (beta ;-) as compiled some months ago
on my Fedora 28 Asus U36SD ..
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JrRPdCpYXzyAB0hhVqRyfr2Pj_mtL3dr/view?usp=sharing


I just see that there is now final version 2.3.0... time to recompile it on
Fedora 29
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/files/

I couldn't resist... and I cannot forget how beautiful it was on my HP9000
workstation on 1994 !

Gianluca

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I hope that konsole will still be around after 2024, or that terminal is
upgraded with the
konsole features.

I recently put together a lab machine to test drive the hypervisor features of
kvm.  I
could not get the numeric keypad to work with gnome3 on the host machine.  I
could get it
to work with KDE and Mate, but the screen management for a two monitor
hypervisor was not
as good as I needed.  I finally tried cinnamon and was impressed; it had great
screen
management with the hypervisor host and guest, and my numeric keypad worked.  I
have
continued cinnamon.

Greg

> Hi, based on the multitude of answers and options received, you can also
> consider the magnificent old days CDE, now open sourced.
CDE can actually be installed on Centos 7 through yum:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dcantrel/cde/

Just install the repo file and "yum install cde"

That gives you CDE version 2.3.

I installed it on an VirtualBox image that I use for testing stuff and it looks
pretty cool.

I missed out on CDE when it was the current thing; I was still using MSDOS (and
DesqView) until about 1998 when I decided that DOS wasn't going to cut it in
the brave new world of the Internet (though it worked great for FidoNet) and got
a Windows 98 machine.  Decided I didn't like that much either so a couple of
months after that I reformatted it and installed Red Hat Linux, and I've
been here ever since.

-- 
MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 7:36 PM Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > Hi, based on the multitude of answers and options received, you can
also
> > consider the magnificent old days CDE, now open sourced.
>
> CDE can actually be installed on Centos 7 through yum:
>
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dcantrel/cde/
>
> Just install the repo file and "yum install cde"
>
> That gives you CDE version 2.3.
>
> I installed it on an VirtualBox image that I use for testing stuff and it
> looks pretty cool.
>
>
Nice to know ;-)
Compiling it from surces needed some time and several dependencies... I
will try.
I see that there are Fedora 28/29 repos too.
Probably lacking dbus and other integrations, but nice to see it running

> I missed out on CDE when it was the current thing; I was still using MSDOS
> (and DesqView) until about 1998 when I decided that DOS wasn't going to
cut
> it in the brave new world of the Internet (though it worked great for
> FidoNet) and got a Windows 98 machine.  Decided I didn't like that much
> either so a couple of months after that I reformatted it and installed Red
> Hat Linux, and I've been here ever since.
>
Optimal choice!