[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:59:32PM -0500, Steve Sandau wrote:
> When I installed Sol 9 a while back (right when the install server image
> was available, but not install CD images), Gnome was still beta. I had
> to download it separately. After installation, it *did* appear as an
> alternate choice to CDE on the GUI login screen.

Thats how it still is, as far as I know.

> I still wasn't impressed. I don't really like Gnome on Linux or FreeBSD,
> and I found it pretty pokey on Sol 9. It behaved well, it just felt slow
> and cumbersome. ('Course I installed it on my trusty dual-CPU SPARC20,
> not on a 900MHz box...)

It was pokey on a SB100/Expert3D/512meg as well.  In any case, I prefer
WindowMaker.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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