Oh good; at the end of the article the author did discover that CDE is alive and well:) I spent most of the article thinking "yes, you most certainly can do all of this today - Illumos is still around, and CDE runs on modern *nix"
Coming back out of there to a Debian desktop is so much nicer, but boy is it fun to play in that little sandbox again. Sparc workstations were awesome and the emulator is a great way to revisit things.
wow. That's a blast from the past. That was the desktop environment on our unix boxes back when I started asic design. I think it was hpux. But CDE...those screenshots immediately took me way back.
I'm going to have to get that installed at work now.
I tried CDE a year or so ago, and it was badly broken on both multi-monitor and 3840x2160 resolutions.
The bigger problem was that CDE refused to place/draw windows outside of an area of 1600x1200 or so. That the panel couldn't be moved to the screen edge might have been slightly annoying, but it actively worked against having _any_ window outside of what is a small area on my screen.