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 No.13149

Desktop thread! Well, not really our shitty arch+i3 stuff, but some of the best and brightest's.

Article is https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/

Here's Dennis Ritchie's for example.
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 No.13150

very cool article, the desktops with prominent GUIs really bring back memories of the cheesiest of photoshop filters and effects to create desktop icons and wallpapers

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 No.13151

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>>13149
I am really into CDE, which I would really like to use more, but unfortunately, I cannot get it working with my FreeBSD install.

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 No.13153

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I've been using a Silicon Graphics workstation from 1999 as my desktop lately. I was still in middle school when this thing was doing real work for a bio company.

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 No.13166

>>13149
Funny, I have seen this on Facebook yesterday.

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 No.13168

yes i saw it already

would be more interested in a 2015 version

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 No.13169

>>13151
>>13153
Good stuff, from back when unix GUIs were intended to be fully-featured rather than bare-bones.

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 No.13171

More screenshots from the same era, except they're from everyday-users instead of prominent figures:
http://www.linux.org.ru/gallery/archive/

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 No.13172

>>13171
It actually looks better than I expected. But yeah, I am a 90's nostalgic.

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 No.13174

>>13168
We could send a couple emails, RMS would surely answer.

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 No.13176

>>13174
Yeah, RMS does answer.

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 No.13182

>>13149
Could you please tell me how to make Windows 7 look like that?

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 No.13183

>>13182
I don't really think it's possible unless you're switching to Windows 98.

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 No.13184

>>13182
You could switch it to Windows Classic shell, replace the icons and desktop background, and modify start button file etc.

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 No.13186

I bet Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda participates in desktop threads.

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 No.13208

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>>13186

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 No.13213

>>13169
Fully-featured? Compared to what? I can see they have more stuff than tiling window managers and such, but they seem comparable enough to XFCE4 and similar

Just curious.

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 No.13222

>>13213
It's not so much about what they could do compared to new GUIs, it's what they were trying to be. Consistent, with integrated applications, and rigid structure. Proprietary systems targeting expensive hardware.

These days, discounting Apple, unix GUI development is universally open source, and carries with it all the design philosophies of open source. Customizable, single function, "lightweight". Everybody is supposed to put together their own system, and so there's no standard complete system.

KDE is sort of trying to be that, but it's soykaf .

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 No.13254

>>13222
>gnome
>customisable
>single function
>lightweight
what the [b]fuck?[/b]

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 No.13256

>>13184
Thanks!

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 No.13257

>>13254
GNOME is really extensible through plugins.
Sadly they break compatiblity all the time and will continue until GNOME 4 comes out.
KDE project is trying to make KDE more modular and lightweight.

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 No.13258

I really like the fact that Ritchie’s file has been slightly corrupted, and the historical feel that this gives.

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 No.13260

>>13153
What DE is that?

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 No.13263

>>13260
Indigo Magic Desktop, later renamed IRIX Interactive Desktop. It only ran on SGI machines.

http://yohanan.org/steve/projects/indigo-magic-desktop/

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 No.13264

>>13263
Thanks anon.

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 No.13265

What are some good old-school Desktop Environments that still work on modern distros?

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 No.13269

>>13265
CDE, enlightenment, iceWM, and fluxbox.

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 No.13284

>>13265
Window Maker is also cool.

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 No.13308

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I spent today setting up a graphical xorg environment on my P3 box.

Gonna try OpenArena on it at some point

https://p.teknik.io/2306 full specs for the box. It's dual-socket, but I haven't gotten around to putting in a second processor yet.

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 No.13321

>>13308
Wow, old stuff. Can you get on lainchan or watch videos on youtube/vimeo with it?

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 No.13342

>>13149
I love that most of the responder's replies include "my desktop is pretty boring"

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 No.13359

>>13321
It'd be a hell of a lot easier to use lainchan if there wasn't a HUGE POINTLESS SPORT THING NO-ONE CARES ABOUT at the top, it sorta loads the P3 all the way.(NEW YORK HASN'T FALLEN THIS FAR SINCE 9/11)

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 No.13360

>>13359
What are the KC Royals? Is that a basketball team?

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 No.13361

>>13359
ohok, thanks for editing my post to include pointless sport stuff no-one cares about, kalyx.(SMOKING THE METS PIPE)

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 No.13392

>>13360
No idea. I thought it was an ad. Diligently blocked.

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 No.13403

>>13359
>>13361
Mods = Gods
I love you guys

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 No.13555

>>13184
I get an awful lot of tearing when turning on the classic shell. Any way to fix this?

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 No.13557

>>13555
It is rendered with the CPU and has no tech like vsync, something a GPU accelerated window manager has.

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 No.13559

>>13308
qutebrowser's bretty nice anon. Nice browser

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 No.13578

>>13257
They don't break compatibility all the time.
Certain API elements change from time to time, so plugin developers need to whitelist compatible plugins. For one reason or another, they never do the changes, adding a string in a json file in 98% of the cases, on time (seriously, there is a freeze window where they have more than enough time for that)

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 No.13595

>>13559
I would have used luakit, but building it is a pain on debian. Oh well, qutebrowser works too.

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 No.13596

>>13151
I can't help you with *BSD, as I don't have a functioning system anywhere here, but I found a copy of Solaris 10 in a magazine if you want it. It comes with CDE and GNOME 2

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 No.13789

>>13151
I have installed CDE on FreeBSD. Its a bit of a pain in the ads but there is a guide on how to do ut somewhere

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 No.13791

>>13789
I ended up getting it to work under Debian, and I really liking it.

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 No.13794

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>>13791
Thought I would post a photograph really quickly. Everything is working, and it is really fun, although not that useful for anything beyond IRC and some very basic web browsing.

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 No.13795

>>13596
Any way you could make an ISO and upload it to mega or something? I would really appreciate that.

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 No.13838

>>13795
Seconding this.

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 No.13863

>>13795
>>13838
Any suggestions for file host that allows uploading several 700M .iso files? It's a 4CD set for a rather old version of Solaris 10.

I can think of either Google Drive, Mega or self-hosted, but my bandwidth is pretty terrible.

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 No.13868

>>13863
If you make a torrent I will seed Indefinately.

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 No.13869

>>13795
They all ready have a debian release with CDE

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 No.14048

Digging this thread up.

What DEs are they using? Old versions of KDE and GNOME and something, right? They look cozy as fuarrrk and are probably lightweight. 8/10 would install on a laptop.

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 No.14050

footprint = gnome
cog and/or "K"s = KDE


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