Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hmmm.  That sounds like what I saw. I vaguely remember trying CDE, but it was 
> too different, so I chose the Gnome desktop, which like you I don't 
> particularly like, but I can work with it.  However, Gnome running under or 
> implemented in Java makes it *much* slower and nothing like what I would call 
> a "normal"  Gnome desktop running under X Window.  

It's not implemented in Java.  It's just branding.

> Oh, well.  I guess if I try again, it isn't going to be any better than what 
> I 
> already saw.  Sun has a really nice, stable OS, with ZFS.  Too bad they 
> cannot publish a modern GUI -- even their old Sun Windows was better looking 
> than what I saw.

Well, realistically, most people running Solaris boxen run them headless
anyway.  Sun hasn't placed a high priority on their desktop UI in many
years because they're fully aware that >90% (probably >95%) of machines
running Solaris are running it as a server OS.


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