[Sunhelp] wow.

[Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk]

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Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> Big announcements from Sun @ Linuxworld Expo tomorrow - looks like they're
> going to replace CDE as the standard desktop UI on Solaris with
> GNOME... (see the news article on sunhelp.org...)
> 
> Wow.  What a thing to wake up to.
> 
> Bill

Won't make a difference to me - I'm still using good ole olwm et al! CDE is too 
much of a resource thief for
my liking, so not good to run on servers. I've heard that GNOME's pretty 'fat' 
too,and that KDE was 
better in this respect, although not nearly as good to use.

Oh why won't someone port 4dwm and IndigoMagic from Silicon Graphics (I REFUSE 
to call them 'sgi')?
Even bigger than CDE, a pig to write for, but darned nice to use 8 hours a day, 
(and that way Sun would have
to install 24bit frame buffers as standard in E series boxes!).

Just my opinion and probably wrong..... ;-)

Bob Cross.


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