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Revision 2 . . December 19, 2001 3:58 pm by Joakim Ziegler [Context, more info]
Revision 1 . . October 1, 2001 2:21 am by (logged).89.99.xxx
  

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UNIX GUI based on the Motif toolkit. Widely adopted in commercial Unices before the coming of the modern KDE and GNOME desktops.
Proprietary UNIX GUI based on the [Motif toolkit]?. Until about 2000, CDE was considered the de-facto standard for UNIX desktops, but at that time, free software desktop environments such as KDE and GNOME were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the GNU/Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unices in total. In 2001, commercial Unix vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP-UX?) and Sun Microsystems (Solaris) announced that they would phase out CDE as the standard desktop on their workstations, in favor of GNOME.

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