On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, David Powell wrote:

>   Though not SMC, the Visual Panels project is attempting to do just
>   that.  (Actually, if services are all you're interested in, it
>   already does do that and is attempting to do a lot more.)

Will Visual Panels be the replacement for smc in future versions of
Solaris?  My guess has been that since it hasn't been open sourced (there
are a few areas I would really like to get my hands on...) is that it has
no future.

>   Visual Panels is written in Java, and we're quite happy with the
>   performance we're getting.  Java performance has improved a lot, and
>   that's not just because computers are getting faster.  I also think
>   it's fair to say that most of SMC's sluggishness has little to do
>   with the language the UI is implemented in.
>

+1 to that.


Bill
rushmores.net
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