The Common Open Software Environment ( COSE ) was an initiative formed in March 1993 by the major Unix vendors of the time to create open, unified operating system (OS) standards.
24-497: COSE or CoSe may refer to: Common Open Software Environment , a 1993 Unix initiative Council of Smaller Enterprises , a business advocacy organization in Northeast Ohio Carbonyl selenide , a chemical compound with the formula COSe Cobalt(II) selenide , a chemical compound with the formula CoSe CBOR Object Signing and Encryption , security standards for
48-458: A petition was created asking The Open Group to release the source code for CDE and Motif under a free license. On August 6, 2012, CDE was released under the LGPL-2.0-or-later license. The CDE source code was then released to SourceForge . The free software project OpenCDE had been started in 2010 to reproduce the look and feel , organization, and feature set of CDE. In August 2012, when CDE
72-708: A major influence on the future of Unix extending far beyond the 12 months of its independent existence. Common Desktop Environment The Common Desktop Environment ( CDE ) 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 Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations . It helped to influence early implementations of successor projects such as KDE and GNOME , which largely replaced CDE following
96-571: Is also included in the NuTyX GNU/Linux distribution which offers an ISO download image with it, in FreeBSD and in source form in pkgsrc which is the default package manager of NetBSD. In March 2014, the first stable release of CDE, version 2.2.1, was made since its release as free software. Beginning with version 2.2.2, released in July 2014, CDE is able to compile under FreeBSD 10 with
120-450: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Common Open Software Environment The COSE process was established during a time when the " Unix wars " had become an impediment to the growth of Unix. Microsoft , already dominant on the corporate desktop, was beginning to make a bid for two Unix strongholds: technical workstations and the enterprise data center . In addition, Novell
144-568: Is now known as the Single Unix Specification . Spec 1170 (no relation to the SPEC benchmarking organization) was named after the results of the first COSE effort to determine which Unix interfaces were actually in use; inspection of a large sample of current Unix applications uncovered 1,170 such system and library calls. As might be expected, the actual number of interfaces cataloged continued to grow over time. Management of
168-501: The CBOR data format Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title COSE . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=COSE&oldid=919219806 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
192-568: The GNOME desktop. Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became widespread on Linux systems. In 2001, Sun Microsystems announced that they would phase out CDE as the standard desktop environment in Solaris in favor of GNOME. Solaris 10, released in early 2005, includes both CDE and
216-488: The CDE runtime environment and background services. From its launch until 2012, CDE was proprietary software. Motif, the toolkit on which CDE is built, was released by The Open Group in 2000 as "Open Motif," under a "revenue sharing" license. That license did not meet either the open source or free software definitions. The Open Group had wished to make Motif open source, but did not succeed doing so at that time. In 2006,
240-481: The COSE process was the creation of a universally-recognized single UNIX standard and an independent organization to administer it. It marked the end of Sun's OPEN LOOK graphical environment in favor of a Motif -based desktop, at the same time making the latter a standard rather than a proprietary toolkit. Although it had less impact on the other standardization areas it originally intended to address, it nonetheless had
264-628: The GNOME-based Java Desktop System . The OpenSolaris project, begun around the same time, did not include CDE, and had no intent to make Solaris CDE available as open-source. The original release of Solaris 11 in November 2011 only contained GNOME as standard desktop, though some CDE libraries, such as Motif and ToolTalk, remained for binary compatibility but Oracle Solaris 11.4, released in August 2018, removed support for
SECTION 10
#1732773198884288-509: The Open Group released their last major version of CDE, version 2.1. Red Hat Linux was the only Linux distribution that proprietary CDE was ported to. In 1997, Red Hat began offering a version of CDE licensed from TriTeal Corporation . In 1998, Xi Graphics , a company specializing in the X Windowing System, offered a version of CDE bundled with Red Hat Linux, called Xi Graphics maXimum cde/OS . These were phased out, and Red Hat moved to
312-493: The default Clang compiler . Since version 2.3.0, released in July 2018, CDE uses TIRPC on Linux, so that the portmapper rpcbind does not need to be run in insecure mode. It does not use Xprint anymore, and can be compiled on the BSDs without installing first a custom version of Motif. Multihead display support with Xinerama has been improved. Since its release as free software, CDE has been ported to: Future project goals of
336-470: The individual companies. In March 1994 UI and OSF announced their merger into a new organization, which retained the OSF name. The COSE initiative became the basis of the new OSF's "Pre-Structured Technology" (PST) process. These efforts in turn eventually became the responsibility of The Open Group , an entity formed by the merger of the new OSF and X/Open in 1996. In the end, the most significant product of
360-461: The late 1980s and early 1990s, the OSF and Unix International (UI). Notable in its absence was OSF co-founder Digital Equipment Corporation ; Digital did finally announce its endorsement of the COSE process the following June. COSE's announced areas of focus were: a common desktop environment; networking; graphics; multimedia; object-based technology; and, systems management. On September 1, 1993 it
384-562: The new standard desktop for Unix, and provided documentation and software for migrating HP VUE customizations to CDE. In March 1994 CDE became the responsibility of the "new OSF", a merger of the Open Software Foundation and Unix International ; in September 1995, the merger of Motif and CDE into a single project, CDE/Motif, was announced. OSF became part of the newly formed Open Group in 1996. In February 1997,
408-618: The opening and standardization of the UNIX brand, the most notable product of the COSE initiative was the Common Desktop Environment , or CDE. CDE was an X11 -based user environment jointly developed by HP, IBM, and Sun, with an interface and productivity tools based on OSF's Motif graphical widget toolkit . Although in the areas of desktop and the OS itself the COSE process was one of unification, in other announced areas, it
432-414: The specification was given to X/Open . In October 1993, it was announced that the UNIX trademark, which was at that time owned by Novell, would be transferred to X/Open. These developments meant that the UNIX brand was no longer tied to one source code implementation; any company could now create an OS version compliant with the UNIX specification, which would then be eligible for the UNIX brand. Besides
456-782: The turn of the century. 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 2.0 or later. Since its release as free software, CDE has been ported to Linux and BSD derivatives. Hewlett-Packard , IBM , SunSoft , and USL announced CDE in June 1993 as a joint development within the Common Open Software Environment (COSE) initiative. Each development group contributed its own technology to CDE: After its release, HP endorsed CDE as
480-428: Was also announced that the COSE vendors were developing a unified Unix specification with the support of over 75 companies. Unlike OSF or UI, the COSE initiative was not tasked to create or promote a single operating system. Their approach was to instead survey and document the OS interfaces already in use by Unix software vendors of the time. This resulting list, originally known as "Spec 1170", evolved to become what
504-410: Was decided to endorse existing technologies from both camps rather than pick one. For example, the announced direction for networking was for all participants to sell, deliver and support OSF's DCE , UI's ONC+ , and a NetWare client. Other areas were addressed in very broad terms. For object-based technology, CORBA was called out as the underlying technology, but method of implementation was left to
SECTION 20
#1732773198884528-410: Was more oriented toward making standards of existing technologies than creating new offerings from scratch. The initial members, (known as "The Big Six" or "SUUSHI"), were: These represented the significant Unix system and OS vendors of the time, as well as the holders of the Unix brand and AT&T-derived source code. They also represented almost all the key players in the two major Unix factions of
552-649: Was released as free software, OpenCDE was officially deprecated in favor of CDE. On October 23, 2012, the Motif widget toolkit was also released under the LGPL-2.1-or-later license. This allowed CDE to become a completely free and open source desktop environment. Shortly after CDE was released as free software, a Linux live CD was created based on Debian 6 with CDE 2.2.0c pre-installed, called CDEbian. The live CD has since been discontinued. The Debian-based Linux distribution SparkyLinux offers binary packages of CDE that can be installed with APT. As of March 2023, CDE
576-435: Was seeing its NetWare installed base steadily eroding in favor of Microsoft-based networks; as part of a multi-faceted approach to battling Microsoft, they had turned to Unix as a weapon , having recently formed a Unix-related partnership with AT&T known as Univel . Unlike other Unix unification efforts that preceded it, COSE was notable in two ways: it was not formed in opposition to another set of Unix vendors, and it
#883116