On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 21:48 -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > PS: Last time I tried, any of the blastwave packages that brought in GTK > font support were very, very toxic on OpenSolaris. To the point that the > only way to get back to a working desktop was to reinstall from scratch. > I strongly discourage the use of blastwave on OpenSolaris... as long as > the packages it has are built on Solaris 8 there are going to be issues > with some of the "layered" software, such as most GUI apps.
Both Blastwave's CSWkde 3.4.3 and CSW GNOME 2.16.3 worked fine on SXCE b68 when installed on a Sun Blade 100. I've use them in combination with JDS and CDE without ANY issues in a full production environment with heavy OpenGL graphic workloads. As Garrett mentioned though, you are looking at binaries built on Solaris 8. I've ran both desktops on my Sun Blade 100 for months on SXCE configs - and having a sys admin in Germany running a 80-user setup which ran very stable for months. I won't say **all** packages work fine as you use SXCE/SXDE or the other OpenSolaris distros. Also, several people from Sun (ahem!) are using Blastwave's KDE and GNOME packages (as well as those nice Mac laptops). Now, Blastwave's packages are reported as running on Indiana, Belenix, Schillix, Martux, Nexenta, and all Y2006-Y2007 SXCE/SXDE distros - as well as Solaris 8->10. All being said, we can currently review the current Blastwave 01/2008 STABLE snapshot with SXCE b78... ~K This message posted from opensolaris.org
