Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> writes:
> > last time I forgot about:
> > - dtterm which is not available in opensolaris
>
> That's an example of one which was ARC'ed - the EOL of CDE was ARC'ed
> in 2005, and the release notes for Solaris 10 update 4 and later contain
> the "CDE may not be in future releases of Solaris" warning.
>
> We saved some effort on the SVR4->IPS conversion by not converting
> packages we'd just turn around and remove since they were being EOL'ed -
> that includes Xsun and most of CDE in the part of the system I know best.
>
> We also accelerated the /usr/openwin -> /usr/X11 migration in the IPS
> packages, since many of the legacy bits still stuck in /usr/openwin (like
> Xsun) weren't coming forward to IPS, and moving the rest in the conversion
> was easy. (Though as discussed recently in xwin-discuss, the next step
> will be migration from /usr/X11 -> /usr.)
One issue that bothers me here for SPARC desktops: with Xsun removed, what
will happen to machines whose framebuffers have only closed drivers
(e.g. I'm currently using a Blade 1500 with XVR-600 (jbf) running
snv_114). Will I be able to continue using it or will I be just out of
luck?
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, BFaculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
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