> Why I am writing this text, I am writing to talk > about mistakes which is founding in Solaris in its > future.
... > JDS which is now in Solaris Express Community Build > 57 and Solaris Express Developer need more memory to > run and there is no need such GUI as JDS (Java GNOME) > but there is need clean GNOME where can be two Sun > Microsystems created themes which can be used if you > have very fast computer. Actually, since Solaris is intended to eventually compete directly with Windows at some point in the (not so distant, distant) future, there is very much a need for Solaris to have a modern, Windows-like desktop environment. I might always prefer CLI, but end-users / consumers just want "clicky-bunty" colorful, pretty little pictures to click on. > Think please what you are doing! > The one of correct ways is to use Anaconda (Text, > Graphical) installer and incorporate GParted > technology for partitioning. Linux way is not good for Solaris, and will most likely never be good for Solaris. Besides, Solaris has JumpStart(TM), which blows Anaconda out of the water on any given day of the week, and has a small memory footprint. Granted, it's that much more complex than Anaconda, but it's extremely powerful. > There must be no need to use other partitioning tools > to resize, delete partitions which are already on > computer (QNX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, Linux, > Windows,...) I don't think you're aware of the fact that you *need* Solaris's `fdisk` to *partition* the disk(s) and *need* Solaris's `format` to *slice* that partition up and write a VTOC label inside it. There's no way around that, and no other partitioning tool knows about any of those things. Thank IBM and their braindead BIOS from 1981, which knows nothing about Sun or EFI disk labels and can only handle four primary partitions for that. Why do you think Itanium based systems have an EFI shell instead of a BIOS? > There is need to rename project JDS to GNOME and > allow people of community to work on improving GNOME > and there must be new KDE project where people of > community can work on discussing and recommendations > for KDE in Solaris. JDS is the Sun's version of GNOME with corresponding enhancements and themes. That's how GNOME was meant to work in the first place -- and there is nothing wrong with anybody, including Sun, customizing GNOME. > This must be for CDE too and special community opened > for CDE. CDE is an old technology with no future. It was cutting edge in its heyday, but extreme complexity of its configuration and years of neglect of further development have taken their toll. BTW, if you want GNOME to be as fast or faster on Solaris as it is on Linux, then lobby the GNOME developers to use Solaris as their primary development platform. That will solve a good deal of the slowness and the performance problems. > Sorry Sun Microsystems, please think about people > which don't have fast computers and think how to > improve CDE!!! It's way too expensive to sink money into improving CDE. Besides, if you're running Solaris on your computer, your computer is plenty fast enough -- just ditch the GUI crap and use CLI. Then will you truly learn what speed is. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
