On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:34, Rich Teer wrote: > > 1. I have no choice (i.e., CDE no longer ships with > Solaris).
I share the same thought with you. I'll hold out until the *very* end using CDE. I don't mind switching to JDS if CDE is EOL'd, but you'll certainly get a few grunts and groans out of me during (and probably after) the switch. > > 2. GNOME works as well FOR ME as CDE does today. Spoken like a true CDE user. CDE just offers *so* much functionality. It's lightweight and for us Motif-lovers, it's easy on the eyes. > > KDE looks nice, but I'm one of those people who prefers > to stick with whatever ships on the Solaris DVDs/CDs as > much as possible. KDE is available on the Solaris 10 CCD. Does anyone from Sun care to comment on the course that CDE will take over the next few years? I'd really, really hate to see CDE fade away into oblivion. There's still a lot of people (especially, in the professional computing world -- scientists, etc.) that rely on CDE, like myself. If Sun does EOL CDE, I would love to see it untangled from patent troubles and released to the public -- doesn't have to be open sourced, so one would be free to re-incorporate back into the OS if one so desires. -- Derek E. Lewis http://riemann.solnetworks.net/~dlewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
