Episode 4:06: Anything But Common

Coming up in this episode We do a little upgrade Firefox fixes a tooltip The History of W, V, X and CDE How it went And a new old desktop to explore 0:00 Cold Open 1:42 Lemmy's Upgraded! 10:56 A 22 Year Old Bug 15:50 Install Firefox Correctly 22:22 CDE History: Intro 24:04 CDE History: X 27:33 CDE History: OPEN LOOK 29:25 CDE History: COSE 31:28 CDE History: CDE & Others 34:24 CDE History: The Opening 36:14 CDE History: The Releases 43:02 How'd CDE Go? 1:16:00 Next Time 1:21:29 Stinger Watch the video! https://youtu.be/-tycNQ-Ey9Q Banter The LUS Lemmy instance got an update. The ansible repo switched to tagged releases. There were ⚠️breaking changes⚠️ that needed to be prepared for. One of the issues Dan had is likely fixed now. The Bug that's old enough to drink and drive, but hopefully not at the same time! Dan installed Firefox from the .tar.gz download. Spoiler - it updates just fine because my user is the owner in the /opt directory. Announcements This program was made possible by: The letters W, V, X, C, D and E 📺️Youtube 📽️TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 The History of The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) The Andrew Project W was a windowing system that was originally written for the V operating system. In 1984, Robert Scheifler wrote. X is our “reaction” to W Ultrix Window Manager, or uwm Tom's Window Manager, which eventually became Tab Window Manager, or twm Open Look Specification The OSF narrows the search for a User Interface. HP and Microsoft's CXI and DEC's XUI to create the HP OSF/Motif Window Manager. Sun went on to build OpenWindows, which was X with OPEN LOOK on top to replace SunView. COSE In 1994, The OSF and Unix International, a body meant to standardize UNIX, merged, and in 96, merged again with X/Open into The Open Group. Motif and CDE became one KDE enters the scene. May of 2000 when Motif was released as OpenMotif. LessTif, because Less is Mo, published an initial statement August 6th, 2012, CDE was relicensed under the LGPL and was available on SourceForge, where it still lives today. After opening it up, 2.2.1 was released on March 1st, 2014. The final release, at least as of this recording, 2.5.1, dropped in October of 2022. More Announcements Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy Housekeeping Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids Next Time Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the Xfce Desktop Environment Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space Stay tuned 📡 and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Johnny Co-Producer Tim Super User A.J. Advait CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Livet Musical Coder Nicholas Nick sleepyeyesvince The Saigoneer Tobias Support Linux User Space