On Tuesday 01 December 2009 17:15:40 Phil Stracchino wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:31:45 Robert Hartzell wrote: > >> Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>> Recently I tried loading OpenSolaris in a VM, and I discovered that > >>> they somehow have remained frozen in time in 1998 and had not > >>> significantly improved their user interface -- a big disappointment for > >>> me. I ended up with a default system that had a Java user interface > >>> and a /home/kern that was read-only (can you imagine that by default > >>> your home directory is read-only?). I finally gave up. > >> > >> What do you mean by "Java user interface"? Opensolaris is currently > >> using Gnome Desktop version 2.28.0 > > > > That surprised me too. It was a full Java user interface, and all I did > > was about 6 months ago install an OpenSolaris. It is possible that they > > gave me the choice between two user interfaces and I made the bad choice. > > "Java Desktop" is what Sun is calling their Gnome-based desktop, afaik. > They do offer two interface choices out of the box: the Gnome "Java > Desktop", or CDE. Much though I detest Gnome, it's the more usable of > the two.
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. 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. Regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
