Introduction
This chapter covers the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and GNOME. Most of the chapter covers CDE but there is a brief introduction to GNOME because at the time of this writing GNOME can be downloaded from the HP Web site and runs on many HP servers. Information about GNOME and a download of GNOME for HP-UX can be found on www.hp.com/go/gnome. The following three major topics are covered in this chapter:
Detailed CDE topics including X and Motif.
CDE and Virtual Partitions (vPars.)
An introduction to GNOME.
CDE represents the effort of major UNIX vendors to unify UNIX at the desktop level. CDE is widely used by X terminal and workstation users on many UNIX systems. Because you may be managing many UNIX variants that run CDE, I'll ...
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