On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> ...
>
> Has anyone given any thought to providing a "limited" window manager
> such as xfce4, or fvwm, or somesuch, into OpenSolaris? If not, I'd
> humbly suggest/recommend/request that we do so.
Big +1 from me. And in case this helps, a while back (6 months or so) I sort
of prototyped almost exactly what you describe and documented it here:
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/User:Ericb/GettingSmall
I haven't done much with it since then though, mostly because I want/need
to use JDS day-to-day.
Also some key things have changed in this arena since I did this -- e.g.
the emergence of some important new package-dependency management
technologies...
Eric
>
> The main reason for this request is, I'd like to see deployments of Open
> Solaris in environments where RAM is more constrained. For example,
> there is almost no reason why 128MB RAM is not adequate to run an
> NFS/NIS server. But it is woefully inadequate as soon as you startup
> gnome. A very light weight GUI is really called for in such environments.
>
> Thanks for thinking about it.
>
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> Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
> General Dynamics C4 Systems
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