On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 09:13 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > > Why do you guys hate CDE so much ? > > Says who we hate it? > All of us old-skool oldtimers have been using CDE for years and years > and years. > The problem with CDE is that it would require heavy, major development > effort to bring into the 21st century; CDE is fast and consistent > across all the major UNIXes, but it is old, old, old. As if that > wasn't bad enough, CDE is proprietary, and freeing it would require > major dough, as in $$$, USD, bucks! > > Who's gonna dish out that dough? Exactly! Nobody is that insane to try > and free up an obsolete product with tons of encumrances and a major > legal headache. That money is better spent paying the wages of driver > engineers in China and getting more hardware support for the i86pc > platform. > > > And why you guys have to rub it in us, who like CDE, > > that you guys are going with pitch forks against the > > "thing" ? > > CDE has outlived its useful life. GNOME is already the way of the > future. The sooner you embrace it, the less it will hurt. Granted, > GNOME is still slow and buggy on Solaris, but the kinks will be worked > out. >
Well, its not *that* bad; I mean, having used GNOME on Fedora and SLED 10 SP1, I've yet to see it dive to the depths of crappiness than GNOME has done on those platforms. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
