olvwm is one of the nicest experiences I've ever had in searching for a decent 
windows manager - but at the moment I'm satisfied (reasonably) with kde.

Wesley Parish

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:18, you wrote:
> 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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