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

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Scott Howard wrote:

> Nope. OpenWindows is gone.  From the Solaris 9 release notes :

That's funny.  I have a /usr/openwin, and it's not empty.  The
OpenLook/OpenWindows -environment- is gone, but OpenWindows is
still around, until Sun thinks of a new name (Sun XOne?  Sun OneX?
planetX?) for their X server.

>From the Open Look FAQ:
  What is OpenWindows?
    OpenWindows is Sun's name for its windowing environment; the
    current (early SunOS 5.x days) version conforms to the OPEN
    LOOK Graphical User Interface Specifications (a later version
    will use OSF/Motif and CDE).

But this is a really minor silly point, and hardly worth debating, since
Sun's products have a long history of outliving their names.

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Jonathan Patschke
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