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Fogman
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25 Oct 2013, 7:47 pm

As many of the Linux Geeks here know, Common Desktop Environment has been open sourced, and is in development again.

What you may not know, is that somebody has released a DebianLive (6.0 Squeeze) CD running that DE. Here


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13 Nov 2013, 9:54 pm

I've used it on one of my laptops, and I think in a VM. Pretty nice to use.
But getting it to work on a x64 desktop is a bit tricky, at least dtlogin and the like, if you want the full cde experience.



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14 Nov 2013, 7:29 pm

Yeah, apparently the 32 bit is being redeveloped more than the 64 bit version, or rather the code is not optimised for amd64 archetecture.

I would like to see it developed into a modern DE. Keep the look and the much of the workflow the same, but add OpenType support and other things. --Using Wireless is problematic with it.


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