Common Desktop Environment

Developer(s)	The Open Group
Operating system	Unix, OpenVMS
Type	Desktop environment
License	LGPL
Website	www.opengroup.org/cde

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix. It is based on the Motif widget toolkit. HP uses CDE as the default desktop manager for OpenVMS which belongs to HP. This means it will be run without making any changes.

Common Desktop Environment Media

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  Screenshot from the first open source release of the Common Desktop Environment, a desktop system commonly used by Unix distributions in the 90's.

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  Reading Linux kernel man pages in CDE

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  HP 9000 C360 displaying the CDE login manager, dtlogin

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  HP 9000 model B180L running HP-UX and CDE

Other websites

• AIX - CDE at the Internet Archive
• HP-UX - CDE Archived 2008-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Solaris - CDE
• Tutorial for the CDE
• Open Group - CDE
• CDE source code repository