Hi, On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 00:09 +0100, Felix Schulte wrote: > On 12/18/05, Bill Rushmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 13:02, Gary Gendel wrote: > > > Anyway, Linus has just opened another can of worms that directly effects > > > OpenSolaris and JDS. > > > > I really don't see how this effects JDS or OpenSolaris. It just one > > guy's opinion not some edict from above. > Sun's choice of only shipping Gnome has serious impact for the > (Open)Solaris acceptance.
We don't just ship GNOME though - KDE is available on the CCD right? It's just not supported. [snip stuff about Germany that I don't really know enough about] > Other european contries also KDE as primiary desktop and I don't see > how Solaris can get a better acceptance as long KDE is not supported. Given the sheer amount of resources that we've already thrown into GNOME, I feel that it would be almost impossible to throw equal resources into KDE as well. Having 2 desktops really doesn't make any sense from a business point of view - goodness knows we already have *4* CD's already, which is way too many. If there's stuff about GNOME that isn't getting us deals [1] then we need to start tackling those issues and figuring out what we need to improve. However, if we have a package repository where someone could easily install a version of KDE then maybe we have some bargaining power. The Linux distros do seem to be standardizing around GNOME though </flamebait> Glynn [1] And trust me "It isn't KDE" isn't a valid reason _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
