On 1/15/20 3:04 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > > Jon this whole situation with Solaris having it's own code base which > goes back to 1.x. I'm curious if that is why there are a lot of tools > and utils (mostly ones starting with "sd") which aren't part of the > open source version? >
Yes - Sun used the 1.x base, and made many modifucations and added several of their own home-grown tools. > Ie.. they must have made those tools specifically for their version of > CDE and thus they never saw the "light of day" since Solaris never > open sourced their CDE. > Correct. > Also, what was the deal back in the OpenSolaris days before Oracle > killed it? Did that codebase have CDE? I also wonder about Illumos. Do > they still have a CDE codebase, too? I'm guessing Sun just didn't > release it with the rest of the code. > Due to the licensing restriction of CDE, sun never released the source for that. They were moving toward gnome at the time I think. > Not that it really matters. I'm just asking for the sake of trivia and > posterity. However, I would like to motivate myself enough to take on > writing one or two replacements for some of the cooler tools from > Sun's CDE. However, lately I've been just stuck doing MOTIF tutorials > on my SGI IRIX systems under Indigo Magic / 4DWM. It might not be CDE, > but it's a kissing cousin in my opinion. > Well, we could use a new dtmail, and dtappbuilder needs love, and... :) > I also wanted to congratulate you and the team on the new release. > Thanks! -jon > -S > > > _______________________________________________ > cdesktopenv-devel mailing list > cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel -- Jon Trulson "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." -- Sheldon
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