It's Here! Red Hat's TriTeal CDE, Full-Featured UNIX Desktop for Linux

Research Triangle Park, NC -- Tuesday, June 10, 1997 -- Red Hat Software, publishers of the award winning Red Hat Linux advanced operating system announces the release of Red Hat's TriTeal CDE for Linux. This complete graphical interface, licensed from TriTeal Corporation (NASDAQ: TEAL) and based on the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) standard, provides Linux OS users with the familiar look and feel of other UNIX-based systems, including visually attractive icons, drag-and-drop functions and other organizational features. Red Hat's TriTeal CDE offers developers a consistent set of industry standard API's and application interoperability to create CDE-aware applications for any X system platform.

"The opportunity to partner with enterprise desktop leader TriTeal Corporation ensures that our customers are getting the absolute best CDE environment for Linux," said Robert Young, President of Red Hat Software, Inc. "Software developers will be able to run and develop CDE compliant applications on low-cost PC workstations, making CDE development more readily accessible to a much broader audience. Red Hat Software is committed to bringing serious development tools to the Linux OS."

Kevin Kreitz, VP of Business Development for TriTeal Corporation adds, "We have received considerable interest from our customers for a Linux version of TriTeal's desktop. Red Hat's distribution of the Linux OS provides our customers with a robust, reliable Linux implementation of CDE."

Red Hat's TriTeal CDE, available in Developer and Client editions, includes a CD-ROM, an Advanced User's Guide, and extensive on-line documentation. Both editions are available at software dealers, and directly from Red Hat Software, Inc. See CDE product description for more complete information.

Red Hat Software, Inc.

Red Hat Software, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, builds and maintains the Red Hat distribution of the Linux operating system. Working with a huge team of volunteer Linux developers over the Internet, Red Hat's goal is to publish the latest, most stable versions of this remarkable technology. Red Hat Linux is the leading Linux operating system in use by commercial, development, and academic Linux users worldwide. Red Hat also publishes and maintains industry standard commercial applications for Linux including OSF Motif, and the Applixware Office Suite.

Red Hat's Triteal CDE for Linux - Client Edition [software]

Red Hat's TriTeal CDE for Linux provides users with a complete graphical environment to access both local and remote systems. The familiar "look and feel" of other UNIX-based systems is now ready for you to install on your Linux PC. It gives you the icons, pull-down menus, and folders you have come to expect in this industry-standard friendly graphical user interface.

Red Hat's TriTeal CDE for Linux is available in two versions. The Client Edition gives you everything you need to operate a complete licensed copy of the CDE desktop, incluidng the Motif 1.2.5 shared libraries. The Developer's Edition allows you to perform all functions of the Client Edition, and also includes a complete integrated copy of OSF Motif version 1.2.5, providing a complete development environment with static and dynamically linked libraries, Motif Window Manager, and sample Motif Sources. It provides you everything you need to create CDE-aware applications for any X system platform.

• Ease of use -- visually attractive icons, "drag and drop" functions, logical organization
• Consistency and portability -- the same "look and feel" as CDE for other X-based systems
• Preservation of today's applications -- ranging from personal productivity to broad mission-critical applications
• Development -- create CDE-aware applications for any X system platform (Developer's Edition)

CDE is an RPM-based product, and will install easily on Red Hat and other RPM-based Linux systems. We recommend using Red Hat Linux 5.0 to take full advantage of CDE features. For those who do not have Red Hat 5.0, CDE includes several Linux packages that can be automatically installed to improve its stability.

For those of you without Red Hat 5.0, the following packages are included with CDE and can be automatically installed to improve stability: cracklib-dicts-2.5-1.i386.rpm gcc-2.7.2.1-2.i386.rpm libg++-2.7.1.4-5.i386.rpm pam-0.57-2.i386.rpm pdksh-5.2.12-1.i386.rpm portmap-4.0-3.i386.rpm pwdb-0.54-3.i386.rpm

These screen shots may give you a better idea of the wide variety of ways that Red Hat CDE can be customized, from garish to muted ;-)

1. CDE_screen1.jpg [220K] It's on fire - someone has decorated their desktop with hot colors.
2. CDE_screen2.jpg [124K] A more businesslike look
3. CDE_screen3.jpg [176K] This desktop, with its high-contrast white and blue, also shows off the calendar and mailer that come with CDE

Features

• Session Management -- Login Manager, Session Manager, security features
• Window Management -- Window Manager, Workplace Manager, front panel
• Object/Folder Management -- File Manager with graphical object/file management, and object services
• Graphical Workspace Manager -- Retains virtual console capabilities of other window managers while maintaining CDE Procedural and Object-oriented Application
• Integration -- "Drag and drop" and data interchange capabilities
• On-line Information -- Extensive documentation with hypertext and hypergraphics, plus man pages
• Icon Editor -- Data editing and display of text and icons
• Multi-user Collaboration -- Multi-media enabled mailer, group calendar
• Customizable Environment -- Design it to suit your own style and preferences
• Productivity Tools -- Clock, calendar, text editor, terminal emulator, selected MIT clients
• New Visuals -- Color palettes, icons, backdrops, signature visuals
• Network Services -- Message server and policy, execution management

Contents

Includes one CD and one manual.

System Requirements

Intel-compatible processor,16MB RAM (32MB recommended),45MB disk space, CD-ROM drive

Ordering

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Copyright 1997