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CERN/CN has purchased 20 licences for TED, the TriTeal Enterprise version of COSE/CDE, the Common Desktop Environment that provides a single graphical interface across all UNIX platforms. In brief terms, COSE/CDE is a desktop manager based on HP-VUE plus SUN's Tooltalk. It offers an icon-based interface to many common UNIX actions such as mail, printing and file management. It also supports multiple virtual workspaces to avoid keeping too many open windows on a screen. There is a small one-time payment.
TED fulfils the published CDE desktop specification, but the version we have, TED 3.5, still has some bugs that remain and we expect an upgrade kit to TED 4.0 in the course of November; this upgrade will be free of charge for all licences purchased now.
It should be noted that CDE should come bundled free with AIX 4.1, with Solaris 2.5, with Digital UNIX (OSF) 3.2; and with HP-UX 10.1, but later.
We currently offer an automatic installation procedure, through AFS. You can choose between installing CDE locally on your workstation (about 32Mb) or accessing most of it only by links over AFS (as ASIS does).
We offer a set of actions (click and it's done) and tools to help system administrators to design their cluster/system configuration. This set of actions and tools are still under development and should be stable by the end of November.
Only a few things are required to be customized with COSE/CDE and the set of `actions' we will soon offer will save you the time needed to customise your desktop for AFS and to follow UISCM recommendations, such as ASIS tools, xprint , etc.
We plan to offer documentation for users and system-administrators soon. In the meantime, we will assist users wishing to configure their desktop.
If you want to install TED 3.5 on your workstation, contact Alan Silverman, and we will send you instructions on how to install it through AFS. If you prefer to wait until TED 4 arrives, then watch the cern.unix newsgroup where it will be announced.
Disk space requirement:
AIX 43 - 49 Mb HPUX 32Mb Solaris 32 MbRAM requirement: 16 Mb, 32 Mb preferred.