On 2001.05.24, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"adam morley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > If you look on Sun's site, there is a link to a company that is
> > doing the porting work for GNOME to Solaris. Last time I looked
> > they hadn't quite got 1.4 packaged, but it was expected real soon
> > now.
>
> also, something i forgot to mention is that sun is "ditching" cde for
> gnome. and some funky webdesk stuff, but thats another story. im
> guessing at a release date of gnome 2.0/solaris 9 timeframe. heard
> their desktop group actually has ppl on the gnome team...also heard
> something about star office and open office getting together.
This "porting work" is actually just for the fully-integrated version
Sun wants to ship in the future. It's fully possible to compile and
run it yourself, if you don't particularly want your windowing
environment to support all the little things your OS does uniquely.
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-D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
