[geeks] What graphical environments are people here using on Solaris?

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Wed Oct 8 07:53:56 CDT 2003


On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:41:49PM -0400, Francois Dion wrote:
> Solaris 9 8/03 comes with Gnome 2 and it's only but a click away. It 
> seems the preferred environment under Solaris 9 x86, at least with 
> people I know (most are also linux users).

The version included with 8/03 is a good bit faster than earlier releases
too.  They put a lot of effort into optimising it, and seem to have done
well.  That said, it's still not as fast as CDE (which isn't as fast as
FVWM, etc) but it's much closer than it was previously.

  Scott.



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