Martin Wehipeihana wrote:
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:04, Paul Swafford wrote:
FYI following a request from a list member we have RH Yarrow available
3CD set .. BTW I have been experimenting with Solaris X for i386 and I like it a lot - requires fairly standard hardware but comes with CDE (very nice) or Gnome 2 (yech).
I thought Sun had dropped support for Solaris on X86?
They did for a bit, but there was such a backlash organised in the US that it was brought back. It now seems to be stronger than ever with a commercial basis to it and Sun support.
The main drawback it has is in the application area. Reasonable number of commercial apps but the "free" apps are not as plentiful or as uptodate as a linux version. Driverwise is not too much of a problem ... you buy what works... It is less likely to run on any old piece of HW you just happen to have lying around.
Sun have shifted to gnome but CDE and all the others are still available (olwm anyone ?)We still have a few on twm -- But this would just start a desktop war.
Pete
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