Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hmmm. That sounds like what I saw. I vaguely remember trying CDE, but it was > too different, so I chose the Gnome desktop, which like you I don't > particularly like, but I can work with it. However, Gnome running under or > implemented in Java makes it *much* slower and nothing like what I would call > a "normal" Gnome desktop running under X Window.
It's not implemented in Java. It's just branding. > Oh, well. I guess if I try again, it isn't going to be any better than what > I > already saw. Sun has a really nice, stable OS, with ZFS. Too bad they > cannot publish a modern GUI -- even their old Sun Windows was better looking > than what I saw. Well, realistically, most people running Solaris boxen run them headless anyway. Sun hasn't placed a high priority on their desktop UI in many years because they're fully aware that >90% (probably >95%) of machines running Solaris are running it as a server OS. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
