What serendipity. I just bought an old Alpha on eBay, and installed both Tru64 and OpenBSD on it. Tru64 came with CDE, and I was once again admiring how ugly it is, and lamenting with friends at work how this eyesore could replace OpenLook. But CDE kind of "belongs" to Tru64.
Looks like I now get to "enjoy" CDE on the OpenBSD partition as well!
sugarpimpdorsey · 1h ago
So it will feel like Real® UNIX® again.
Solaris just wasn't the same after they switched to GNOME.
Now you just need that utility that replicates HDD clicking noise through the speaker when your SSD is accessed.
Is there a Firefox skin that looks like Netscape 4? For extra realism have a script that randomly kills the process every 15 minutes to simulate Netscape crashing.
One of my mentors when I was very young gave me an Alphaserver 2100A running OpenVMS with CDE on it, and I remember using the installed scientific software (cant remember the name) to do 3D graphs, and so began a lifelong love of scientific computing!
Looks like I now get to "enjoy" CDE on the OpenBSD partition as well!
Solaris just wasn't the same after they switched to GNOME.
Now you just need that utility that replicates HDD clicking noise through the speaker when your SSD is accessed.
Is there a Firefox skin that looks like Netscape 4? For extra realism have a script that randomly kills the process every 15 minutes to simulate Netscape crashing.
(Though it does require your computer have a drive access LED.)
For a modern "Netscape", look into Seamonkey.
> I wouldn't use is as a daily driver, it's old unsecure code but it's fun if you want to bring back memories.
https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
One of my mentors when I was very young gave me an Alphaserver 2100A running OpenVMS with CDE on it, and I remember using the installed scientific software (cant remember the name) to do 3D graphs, and so began a lifelong love of scientific computing!