Jacob Shaw wrote: > This is entirely incorrect, and I feel the need to correct it. A lot > of mention has been made about how Linux is the desktop leader among > the *NIXes, due to its plethora of GUI.......
Sheesh, I'll keep my excitement to the activism list, maybe. Or not. What I was reporting to the list about was another "win" for linux. The press release Sun put out seems clearly like a "win" for linux. As I see it, linux is gaining momentum b/c it's hard to compete! Personally, I do NOT see linux and bsd competing. True, my own [lack of] experience twists my bias away from bsd, but I do know it to be a working system, and a good one at that. Incidentally, I was speaking of the Solaris GUI. I'm sure the OS will live on, Mac OS6 still has a great following for instance, and Amiga's even making a comeback. Granted those are in another boat altogether, but classics will never die. I guess 'dead' gives the wrong idea. I'm simply impressed that YACGL (yet another company goes linux)... is this not a major win, or at least indication of *more* good things to come from Sun? BTW, has anyone heard about linux at SGI? I had a nice time at their 'linux day' in Portland a couple years ago, free beer and all. I guess SGI doesn't mess with x86 much, whereas Sun has adopted x86 a platform or two. On another note: does anyone use Gnome or KDE (or other X11 WM) on M$ 'doze, under cygwin?? I know xfree was ported, but I'd love to see 'panel' compete with the start bar... > On 2/7/02 10:35 AM, "Ben Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is now linux! I'm sure there'll be a lot more news about it to come, > but the last line of their news release is what summed it to me > > * GNOME, the most advanced Linux user environment, will become > the preferreddesktop 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... >
