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Re: Newbie Question: CDE and 5.2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Wed Nov 25 16:27:32 1998

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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:15:29 EST."
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:25:30 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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TriTeal CDE was an extra value product obtainable through Red Hat.
It has never been, nor has it ever been advertised as, a component
of the standard Official distribution.  XFCE2 is a _very_ comfortable
replacement for those use to working with CDE.

Best
   rickf

steinbr@mediaone.net said:
> At 09:02 PM 11/25/98 +0100, you wrote: >On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 
> steinbr@mediaone.net wrote: > >->I have just installed Redhat 5.2 on 
> my machine and it went flawlessly.  I >->looked for CDE interface but 
> did not find it.  I am to assume it is not >->longer part of the 
> Redhat Distribution? > > >*** I wasn't aware of the fact that it ever 
> was. CDE is a commercial >package for which you have to pay...and a 
> lot. Try XFCE2 if you want a >free CDE clone.

> I am reading  RedHat Unleashed (versons4.2) Second edition David 
> Pitts et al 0-672-31173-9 It devotes an entire section to Triteal CDE 
> desktop as part of the Redhat distribution.

> P 76 "In this chapter I will introduce the CDE implementation 
> distributed by RedHat Software and developed by TriTeal. This version 
> is fully compliant with the standard developed....." 

-- 
Rick Forrister                 <Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov>

You'll wonder why your data's lost
   When you load your system with MicroSoft...



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