Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 17:15:40 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:31:45 Robert Hartzell wrote: >>>> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>>>> Recently I tried loading OpenSolaris in a VM, and I discovered that >>>>> they somehow have remained frozen in time in 1998 and had not >>>>> significantly improved their user interface -- a big disappointment for >>>>> me. I ended up with a default system that had a Java user interface >>>>> and a /home/kern that was read-only (can you imagine that by default >>>>> your home directory is read-only?). I finally gave up. >>>> What do you mean by "Java user interface"? Opensolaris is currently >>>> using Gnome Desktop version 2.28.0 >>> That surprised me too. It was a full Java user interface, and all I did >>> was about 6 months ago install an OpenSolaris. It is possible that they >>> gave me the choice between two user interfaces and I made the bad choice. >> "Java Desktop" is what Sun is calling their Gnome-based desktop, afaik. >> They do offer two interface choices out of the box: the Gnome "Java >> Desktop", or CDE. Much though I detest Gnome, it's the more usable of >> the two. > > 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. > Everything described here sounds exactly like Solaris 10 and nothing like Opensolaris... Are you sure it was Opensolaris that you tried?
> 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. > > Regards, > > Kern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Robert W Hartzell bear at rwhartzell.net RwHartzell.Net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
