Doug Scott wrote: > Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >>> Actually there is a hell of a difference. My desktop >>> is in the global zone. I would hate to see it stuck in the last >>> century. >>> >> >> Last century? How much difference would there be for a GUI desktop? >> And why use provocative phrases like "last century" to describe a >> difference >> that not everyone dislikes? Not everyone who likes it pretty much the >> way it is, is an inflexible old fogy, either! But I can't imagine >> choosing Solaris >> 2.6 over Solaris 10 or later, except insofar as one had some >> dedicated box >> already running it that could just stay stable until it died. >> > > This comment comes from that I have just looked at building Xfce 4.4.1 > for the "latest" Solaris 10. > The libraries for Gnome are that old that to build Xfce you need to > remove Gnome completely and > start from scratch. It is obvious that the Solaris version update time > is a little long for the desktop. The > current timing is focussed around the server market, most of which > think that Solaris 10 is a bit modern. > Have you tried it with the subject of the alias, a recent OpenSolaris build?
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