Girts Zeltins wrote:
Hello,
As I see people stop discussing about all this, but I have check Open Group
website and I check that price for CDE source are astronomical!
In my opinion Open Group is providing too big price for CDE.
It doesn’t cost such money.
CDE source prices were not intended
k CDE through the
legacy Solaris versions and support Sun's CDE based on that Sun's info.
~ Ken Mays
- Original Message
From: Girts Zeltins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:43:07 AM
Subject: [osol-discuss
Hello,
As I see people stop discussing about all this, but I have check Open Group
website and I check that price for CDE source are astronomical!
In my opinion Open Group is providing too big price for CDE.
It doesn’t cost such money.
Thank You.
Kind Regards,
Girts
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Nicolas Linkert wrote:
Apart from that: I always thought one would have to ship CDE in order to be a
certified UNIX operating system?
No, CDE is only required for UNIX98 Workstation compliance, which
Solaris 10 isn't certified for, anyway. Solaris 10 does comply with
UNIX2003, but UNIX200
If you really care so much for CDE, why don't you use Xfce? Xfce is a very fine
desktop environment that can be made CDE-like with a few mouse-clicks.
Apart from that: I always thought one would have to ship CDE in order to be a
certified UNIX operating system?
This message posted from opens
It's not just about nostalgia or I-know-it attitude. I am one of the typical
young user of Solaris and I find CDE more productive than either GNOME or KDE.
It's not just the desktop, but the associated utilities. The integrated
calendar "works" and is far more intuitive than most others (even in
On 11/16/06, De Togni Giacomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I see another problem.In my opinion,the question is about maintaining a single
version of Solaris for Enterprise and Desktop market.These two enviroments are
quite different for many reasons.Ten years ago,we had Motif an CDE for all
env
Hello De,
Thursday, November 16, 2006, 5:32:13 PM, you wrote:
DTG> I see another problem.In my opinion,the question is about
DTG> maintaining a single version of Solaris for Enterprise and
DTG> Desktop market.These two enviroments are quite different for many
DTG> reasons.Ten years ago,we had Mo
De Togni Giacomo writes:
> Desktop release: drop CDE,add boot splash,more new code from opensolaris new
> projects into the system,more GTK+ apps and tools (for example...)
> Enterprise Release: maintain a strong compatibity with old software and
> hardware (for example...)
One reason not to do
>Desktop release: drop CDE,add boot splash,more new code from opensolaris new
>projects into the sys
tem,more GTK+ apps and tools (for example...)
Why? What additional cost (apart from CDE) is there in distibuting
CDE?
>Enterprise Release: maintain a strong compatibity with old software and
>
I see another problem.In my opinion,the question is about maintaining a single
version of Solaris for Enterprise and Desktop market.These two enviroments are
quite different for many reasons.Ten years ago,we had Motif an CDE for all
enviroments and this was ok.Then,with the arriving of Gnome an
rlhamil wrote:
>
> Sure would be good if that petition (to TOG) to open
> CDE
> got somewhere. Very little Sun could do
> unilaterally...
>
For those that are interested the petition is here, please consider signing it
if you agree with its sentiments.
http://www.marutan.net/cde/
and here
htt
The Metal L&F in Java 1.5 is Great! It's extensively different from
Metal in Java 1.4 (which wasn't stellar). The Java 1.5 GTK L&F is a bit
demented as far as colours and widgets go.
Having played with some of the 1.6 betas (I'm yet to look at the new
release candidate) it appears that Met
Subject: [osol-discuss] Re: About graphical desktops and Solaris future
drdoug wrote:
[...]
> CDE in Solaris almost has not changed since day one.
> I cannot see why it is a mistake for Sun to remove it
> from Solaris. If people from the community want to
> support (or update) it then
drdoug wrote:
[...]
> CDE in Solaris almost has not changed since day one.
> I cannot see why it is a mistake for Sun to remove it
> from Solaris. If people from the community want to
> support (or update) it then fine, but I don't see why
> it is such a problem for Sun to finally stop making a
> v
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Doug Scott wrote:
> CDE in Solaris almost has not changed since day one. I cannot see why
> it is a mistake for Sun to remove it from Solaris. If people from the
THat's quite simple: GNOME simply doesn't offer a good way for CDE to
migrate to GNOME (yet). GNOME doesn't offer
> Hello all,
>
> I am writing this to talk about Solaris and its
> future. I was experimenting with Solaris long time
> and I have found many things, which are, need to
> change in Solaris.
> Recently I was asked question about CDE, about its
> future and I had answer that Sun Microsystems don't
>
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