Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) Coming to OpenBSD

11 susam 3 7/31/2025, 1:42:58 AM undeadly.org ↗

Comments (3)

sugarpimpdorsey · 3m ago
So it will feel like Real® UNIX® again.

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.

hexagonwin · 4m ago
Nice. Though it wasn't on the ports tree, seems like it was possible to build already. https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/OpenBSDBuild/
malux85 · 4m ago
I have a vm with NsCDE installed for when I what that childhood nostalgia hit

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!