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VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

23 points zdw 1 day ago 5 comments

josteink 1 hour ago | parent

Consider me weird, but I really find that old-school CDE interface really appealing, visually.

I don’t want my desktop to work like CDE (ie OpenCDE), but just look like it.

Now if someone could create a Hyprland template for that, that would be awesome.

jeffbee 1 hour ago | parent

It definitely took me back when the presenter came within half a pixel of logging out instead of opening the application. That's why they made the O2 small enough to throw across the room.

jdboyd 43 minutes ago | parent

That was Motif but not CDE. Maybe you were making a statement not directly about the video, I'm not certain. Irix called it the Irix Interactive Desktop.

I did like it. I still do, visually. I don't think I would want to go back to it full time.

TacticalCoder 32 minutes ago | parent

> That was Motif but not CDE.

Indeed it's not CDE (although GP could just be saying that he liked old school WM / UIs like CDE, not necessarily that the one in TFV was CDE) but I think technically in the vid it's even SGI's 4Dwm. Heavily based on Motif but not totally visually identical to Motif? According to Wikipedia 4Dwm began in 1991.

As a sidenote a friend back then was lucky enough to have a SGI at home (for his stepfather was at the head of SGI Benelux) and that 4Dwm environment always struck me as particularly slick.

jdboyd 29 minutes ago | parent

The video editing software in the video is SGO Jaleo. I've read about its existence, but I don't think I've ever been able to find a demo of someone using it before, so that was really cool to see. With regard to how the video was captured, there was a Firewire card option for the O2. I believe a number of cheap cards were compatible with the official one. I suspect it would have made capturing harder, not easier, given that they had a VTR with SDI output though.