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-The Common Desktop Environment is released under the terms of the LGPL V.2
-license. You may reuse and redistribute this code under the terms of this
-license. See the COPYING file for details.
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+The Common Desktop Environment is released under the terms of the LGPL
+V.2 license. You may reuse and redistribute this code under the terms
+of this license. See the COPYING file for details.
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Purpose of this release:
-This release under a new license is numbered 2.2.0. It is almost identical to
-the 2.1.30 release The Open Group made available to customers in 1999 but with
-additional improvements to allow it to build under Linux. It's not called
-2.1.30 to avoid confusion with versions of 2.1.30 not built from the open source
-code.
+This release of CDE under a new opensource license is numbered
+starting at version 2.2.0.
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Downloading this release:
-CDE may be downloaded downloaded in source form from the Common Desktop
+CDE may be downloaded in source form from the Common Desktop
Environment website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/cdesktopenv/code cdesktopenv-code
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+The git repository will always be more up to date than the
+downloadable tarballs we make available, so if you have problems,
+please try the latest version from git master.
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Installing this release:
-Complete installation instructions can be found on the CDE wiki:
+Complete build and installation instructions can be found on the CDE
+wiki:
http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/
+Please go there and read the appropriate section(s) for your OS (Linux
+or FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD currently). There are a variety of
+dependancies that must be met, as well as specific set up steps
+required to build.
+
+Do not expect to just type 'make' and have it actually work without
+meeting the prerequisites and following the correct steps as spelled
+out on the wiki. :)
+
+There are also a lot of other documents and information there that you
+might find useful.
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+Support:
+
+You can join the development mailing list here:
+
+https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
+
+There is a CDE IRC channel on chat.freenode.net, channel #cde
+
Bug reports and patches encouraged.