> I still *really* like openwin/olvwm. It is light weight and works well on > SunRay's. > > I have found that you can load the packages from Solaris 8 onto Solaris 9 or > 10 > and it works well. > > Jerry Kemp
My office uses FVWM for 30-seat labs because it's small enough to get 30 people on one server and still have room in memory for bloated apps like StarOffice and Mozilla. It's also easily configurable to look like other systems, which provides a certain comfort level to freshmen. > > Derek Konigsberg wrote: > > > >> Right now at home I have 4 DTUs setup, where I'm likely to have no > >> more than 2 in active use at any given time. I used to run them on > >> SRS 2.1 with Solaris 9 on an E420R (3x450MHz, 1GB RAM) using the > >> version of GNOME that Sun packaged with it. I've since upgraded to > >> SRS 3.0 with Solaris 10 on an SB1000 (2x900MHz, 2GB RAM) using the > >> version of GNOME (now called JDS) that Sun packaged with it. > >> > >> What's really annoying is that the interactive user experience is now > >> *slower*, despite the base hardware being nearly twice as fast. I > >> directly blame JDS for this (always used to prefer KDE to GNOME on > >> Solaris for performance anyways, but KDE is getting harder and harder > >> to cleanly integrate newer versions of into Solaris). I also really > >> hate how JDS insists on using fonts that look like crap unless > >> anti-aliased (and the anti-aliasing is of low quality and generally > >> has a performance hit on Sun Rays). (I'm also a KDE person in general > >> whenever I have the option.) I also hate how JDS makes UI > >> configuration an obscure PITA to figure out. > >> > >> So what desktop/wm are you all using? How do you get good interactive > >> desktop performance? (yes, I've read the "put GNOME on Atkins" blog > >> article, but am looking for a non-GNOME option) > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
