Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Solaris has two already - CDE & GNOME.
>

Okay.
Plus all the unsupported WM's from the SFW-Companion_disk (plus from 3rd
party repositories like CSW ... ).

But my personal experience shows, that too few external people _know_
about those options.
SUNW should make more Marketing for the non-supported options, too
(and make the 3rd party download links even more dummies-findable,
directly when they download Sol10++).

Many standard Linux users don't even appear to know, that all the
freeware - including KDE - is also available for Solaris.
I'm not only speaking of students, but also professors (not CS-profs,
but close relatives like Electronics, Physics or Maths).
And they are teaching thousands of students, that  linux was the best os
on earth (they do).
When you ask them _why_, they most of the time argue with invalid things
like "it has KDE, then it has bash, aehm ...".

Expect misinformation to be the default.

--
mb
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