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Kern Sibbald wrote:
> 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.
The reason it was slow, I don't know. But the "Java" name is just Sun
being dopey. Same with the Java Enterprise System mail software. I'm
fairly certain that no significant portion of it is written in Java,
it's just what they choose to call it. Same with the dopey stock ticker
symbol change from SUNW to JAVA. Perhaps the video driver you were using
(or all of them -- I'm not really sure) is slower than the Linux equivalent.
> 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.
You might see what the deal is with the video driver if you find it
slow. Here's an example of a screenshot. I personally find it rather
surprisingly nice looking: http://lwn.net/Articles/315013/
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