On Tuesday 01 December 2009 17:46:48 Robert Hartzell wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > 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. > > Everything described here sounds exactly like Solaris 10 and nothing > like Opensolaris... Are you sure it was Opensolaris that you tried?
Uh, no, I am not sure. I downloaded an ISO from the Sun site, and booted it. Hmmm. The image is: sol-10-u5-ga-x86-dvd.iso so it does look like I was dealing with Solaris rather than OpenSolaris. Kern > > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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