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.  
> 
Everything described here sounds exactly like Solaris 10 and nothing 
like Opensolaris... Are you sure it was Opensolaris that you tried?

> 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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