Sad to hear. OpenIndiana becomes a niche OS rather than all-purpose
superior alternative to Linux.
GUI in a modern world is a must-have.
Why Android and iOS dominate the mobile world? They are easy to use and
multipurpose - thanks to GUI. Why Nokia lost its mobile devices
business? They failed
The way i get it, upstream is oracle and they abandoned the gui manager. Also
it was mentioned that the old program is not quite compatible with new pkg, and
there is an alternative gui to consider instead of maintaining the old one.
Fwiw, i did see the gui package manager, but sometimes it did
On 12/ 4/13 05:39 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
On 12/04/2013 18:29, Paolo Marcheschi wrote:
Hi
I cannot start packagemanager anymore, I think it is a locale related
problem,
Hello.
The most interesting part of this question is anymore. I haven't
noticed that it was working on some stage.
On 2013-12-14 21:56, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
IPS GUI was removed from upstream IPS repository.
As I know, there were significant problems with building fresh
package-manager and update-manager on OI:
they had dependenices on newer Gnome features which are missing in OI.
So, we made a decision
On 16/12/2013 08:03, Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2013-12-14 21:56, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
IPS GUI was removed from upstream IPS repository.
...
Whining does help, but only to an extent - to estimate the scale
of the problem, and that this lack of GUI does bother someone ;)
Perhaps, also, the
