page_title: Common Desktop Environment
section_title: Systems that provided proprietary CDE
hierarchical_section_title: Common Desktop Environment / History / Systems that provided proprietary CDE
caption_attribution_description: English: Hewlett-Packard HP9000 Unix Workstation, Model 735-99, HP9000/735, Series 700, PA-RISC 7100 CPU - 32 Bit - 99 MHz, max 400 MByte RAM, HPUX 10.20, CDE, SCSI, HIL, HP A4033A 19 inch CRT
context_page_description: The Common Desktop Environment is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard, and was for a long time the "classic" Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations.
  After a long history as proprietary software, CDE was released as free software on August 6, 2012, under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2 or later. Since its release as free software, CDE has been ported to Linux and BSD derivatives.
context_section_description: IBM AIX
  Digital UNIX
  HP-UX: from version 10.10, released in 1996.
  IRIX: for a short time CDE was an alternative to IRIX Interactive Desktop.
  OpenVMS
  Solaris: available starting with 2.3, standard in 2.6 to 10.
  Tru64 UNIX
  UnixWare
  UXP/DS
  Red Hat Linux: Two versions ported by Triteal and Xi Graphics
caption: HP 9000 model 735 running HP-UX with CDE
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