[geeks] Sun is developing a new LINUX desktop!!

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:20:42PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:45:06PM -0600, Jonathan C Patschke wrote:
> > One exception, though; GNOME should be an -optional- install.  I don't 
> > want to be forced to install that bloated beast like I'm forced to 
> > install Perl, Java, and so many others.  It's almost getting to the 
> > point that Solaris is an unacceptable platform for simple services 
> > (DNS, mail gateway, etc.) unless you really over-budget for disc space 
> > to house all the extra crap that gets bundled with the OS.  It's not 
> > horrible yet, but if it gets to the point that GNOME and OpenWindows 
> > are implicitly intertwined, bloating the minimal X-capable install[3] 
> > by 200MB or so, that's out of hand.
> 
> OpenWindows is *already* gone in Solaris 9:
> 
> mrbill at ohno:/usr/openwin/bin> ls *wm*
> twm
> 
> I'd say Solaris 10 will be GNOME-only.

I can't say that I'm sad to see CDE go, but I am sad about OpenWindows.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd