> > CDE (common desktop environment)
> Not familiar with that. Is it related to Inferno?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

now what is "Inferno"?

--Gravis

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???>
wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:36:20AM -0500, william moss wrote:
> >
> > FreeBSD supports XFCE Via its package manager (pkg) or /usr/ports, so it
> > must be possible to run XFCE w/o the systemd daemon(s) or shared objects.
> >
> > Also, I configured server farms for decades (retired now) and a simple
> > GUI was convenient. People, even highly technical one, are pictorially
> > oriented; as a species we relate to images.
>
> Especially, it appears, mathematicians. That's why mathematical
> notation is so two-dimmensional. Making it linear is a concession to
> typesetters, not to mathematicians.
>
> > In that context we ran the
> > CDE (common desktop environment) and its derivatives at Bell Labs (AT&T)
> > using Sun SPARC and HP RISC servers.
>
> Not familiar with that. Is it related to Inferno?
>
> -- hendrik
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