The CDE Sanctuary

The Common Desktop Environment — the real one, open-sourced in 2012 after two decades as the face of commercial Unix — compiled from source inside its own sanctuary. CDE is not in any distribution’s repositories, and that is fine: it is pinned as an explicit source input in DotCortex, built inside the container, launched through its own Xsession. The desktop that shipped on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX workstations, running as a declared, rebuildable habitat.

This site’s per-room workspace patterns are a homage to CDE’s backdrop system, so in a sense you are already standing in this sanctuary’s antechamber. The full front panel, the style manager, dtwm and all — screenshots when it breathes.