About this episode
Coming up in this episode
We do a little upgrade
Firefox fixes a tooltip
The History of W, V, X and CDE
How it went
And a new old desktop to explore
0:00 Cold Open
1:42 Lemmy's Upgraded!
10:56 A 22 Year Old Bug
15:50 Install Firefox Correctly
22:22 CDE History: Intro
24:04 CDE History: X
27:33 CDE History: OPEN LOOK
29:25 CDE History: COSE
31:28 CDE History: CDE & Others
34:24 CDE History: The Opening
36:14 CDE History: The Releases
43:02 How'd CDE Go?
1:16:00 Next Time
1:21:29 Stinger
Watch the video!
https://youtu.be/-tycNQ-Ey9Q
Banter
The LUS Lemmy instance got an update.
The ansible repo switched to tagged releases. There were ??breaking changes?? that needed to be prepared for.
One of the issues Dan had is likely fixed now.
The Bug that's old enough to drink and drive, but hopefully not at the same time!
Dan installed Firefox from the .tar.gz download.
Spoiler - it updates just fine because my user is the owner in the /opt directory.
Announcements
This program was made possible by:
The letters W, V, X, C, D and E
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??TILvids
And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you ?
The History of The Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
The Andrew Project
W was a windowing system that was originally written for the V operating system.
In 1984, Robert