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 CDE desktop and Application Builder, a GUI development tool | |
| Original author(s) | The Open Group |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | CDE Project (modern) |
| Initial release | June 1993 |
| Stable release | 2.5.2[1]
/ November 18, 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C, C++ |
| Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, OpenVMS |
| Size | 54.9 MB (source code)[2] |
| Available in | English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Swedish |
| Type | Desktop environment |
| License | 2012: LGPL-2.0-or-later Original: Proprietary |
| Website | sourceforge |
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard,[3] and was for a long time the Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations. It helped to influence early implementations of successor projects such as KDE and GNOME, which largely replaced CDE following the turn of the century.
After a long history as proprietary software, CDE was released as free software on August 6, 2012, under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.0 or later.[4] Since its release as free software, CDE has been ported to Linux and BSD derivatives.
- ^ "CDE - Common Desktop Environment / Code / [ca84b1] /Cde/HISTORY".
- ^ "CDE - Common Desktop Environment - Browse _src at SourceForge.net". Archived from the original on November 18, 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ "Testing requirements by Product Standard". The Open Group. January 31, 2013. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
- ^ Thom Holwerda. "CDE released as open source". OSNews. Archived from the original on August 8, 2012. Retrieved August 6, 2012.