Sun had a BIG Gnome footprint on their website at one time with the
announcement first came out.  Since then, their dev team has
contributed.  They did a big usability study on Gnome at one point and
released a paper.  It was interesting.

> On 20020207.1351, Grigsby, Garl said ...
>
> It does. Rather nicely too. I really doubt that Sun will dump solaris.
> This is not a first though, HP is going to start shipping with Gnome as
> their standard GUI for HPUX in the very near future. Last I heard it
> would be later in Q2. 
> 
> Garl
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bigler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:1530] Re: Sun's motivation
> 
> 
> On Thursday 07 February 2002 10:35, Ben Barrett wrote:
> > GNOME, the most advanced Linux user environment, will become
> > the preferred desktop for Solaris when GNOME 2.0 begins shipping
> > later this year.
> >
> > This seems to be first public word from its home that solaris is
> > dead. The penguin eats another fish...
> 
> I'm pretty sure that GNOME will run under Solaris.
> 

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