Santiago Orgaz wrote: > I'm using Gnome. > About Nevada, Indiana, etc... all I know is Open Solaris Developer Express > svn79b hehe :p > > About RBAC, RBACSystemCommandKeys, SystemMenu, etc... i'm a Windozed user. If > I need to use the command line or to edit manually a configuration file to > perform a supersimple task like that I would prefer to suicide myself :D If > there is a shutdown button I cannot understand why there is no reboot one... > I need to use the command line with the "reboot" comand each time I wanna > restart the OS... > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > That's Nevada. Indiana is the mostly/almost all FOSS Debian-like variant which is aimed for network installs and for people who don't need all the stuff included with SXDE/CE.
Solaris has traditionally been aimed for UNIX users, unlike Linux, it has only been recently that major work has been done to improve the desktop experience for it. It takes time. Currently, it's using the same X.org codebase as Linux and FreeBSD does, and GNOME has been up to date with the official one for some time. I understand your concerns though, although you should also keep in mind that there's auditing and voting community processes involved with OpenSolaris to keep things working, for compatibilities sake. Solaris has always been one of the more stable UNIX systems, as far as keeping programming API's and support for a broad spectrum of hardware. Becoming open-source doesn't affect Sun's goals for compatibility, but the community process is needed, albeit at times it does slow down progress, for the long-term goals voted upon by the board and community. James
