> Hello: Silly question: how can I turn on CDE (common > desktop environment) instead of Gnome? I got a live > CD (running in my Mac Book). Gnome is my day-to-day > desktop. However, want to try out Solaris 10 on my > Mac Book and if memory serves me right I liked CDE > much better than Gnome. Okay that was at a time of > approx 4 or 5 years ago when I had access to Sun > work-stations. Thanks
2 things: 1. There is no "Solaris 10 live CD". You either have Solaris 10, which does not have a live CD, or you have OpenSolaris. The two are different. Please see http://sites.google.com/site/solarium/distributions for more details. 2. CDE is included in Solaris 10 - and is available as an option. It is not included in OpenSolaris for various reasons - the most obvious being it has been EOLed (End Of Life-ed) which means it is no longer to be used and users should use something else - i.e. Gnome. There is therefore little point adding it to OpenSolaris. If you want to try Solaris 10 on your Mac Book, first run the Sun Device Detection Tool on it to check that all of your hardware is supported. You can access this here: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp . If this reveals all is OK (and I would be surprised if this was the case) then download Solaris 10 from sun.com and install it. An easier way to try Solaris 10 would be to install it into a virtual machine using something like VMware or Vritualbox (www.virtualbox.org). Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
