On Tuesday 01 December 2009 17:15:40 Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:31:45 Robert Hartzell wrote:
> >> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >>> Recently I tried loading OpenSolaris in a VM, and I discovered that
> >>> they somehow have remained frozen in time in 1998 and had not
> >>> significantly improved their user interface -- a big disappointment for
> >>> me.  I ended up with a default system that had a Java user interface
> >>> and a /home/kern that was read-only (can you imagine that by default
> >>> your home directory is read-only?).  I finally gave up.
> >>
> >> What do you mean by "Java user interface"? Opensolaris is currently
> >> using Gnome Desktop version 2.28.0
> >
> > That surprised me too.  It was a full Java user interface, and all I did
> > was about 6 months ago install an OpenSolaris.  It is possible that they
> > gave me the choice between two user interfaces and I made the bad choice.
>
> "Java Desktop" is what Sun is calling their Gnome-based desktop, afaik.
>  They do offer two interface choices out of the box: the Gnome "Java
> Desktop", or CDE.  Much though I detest Gnome, it's the more usable of
> the two.

Hmmm.  That sounds like what I saw. I vaguely remember trying CDE, but it was 
too different, so I chose the Gnome desktop, which like you I don't 
particularly like, but I can work with it.  However, Gnome running under or 
implemented in Java makes it *much* slower and nothing like what I would call 
a "normal"  Gnome desktop running under X Window.  

Oh, well.  I guess if I try again, it isn't going to be any better than what I 
already saw.  Sun has a really nice, stable OS, with ZFS.  Too bad they 
cannot publish a modern GUI -- even their old Sun Windows was better looking 
than what I saw.

Regards,

Kern

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