No GNOME For Solaris 9

Nailer writes: "Subject says it all really. A (very brief) Linuxgram article claims GNOME 2.0 won't be ready for Solaris 9 and the OS will ship with CDE and Motif as defaults. I'm just waiting for the inevitable announcement the GTK port of OpenOffice has been cancelled."

Comments

Re:Sun, why not KDE, for the last time?

[jfunk]

for non corporate use, duh

Uh, no. Corporations can use GPLed code all they want, as long as they do not distribute binaries outside of their organisation without source. If they want to do that, however, they can buy a license to sell closed-source software.

The end result is that Qt encourages *more* open-source code, while GTK does not due to the LGPL.

Two things, though:

- Most software is written for internal use
- If you're going to sell apps, Qt is cheap as dirt as there are no individual licensing fees

It looks like Sun, contrary to the opinion of many Slashdotters, is *encouraging* closed-source by making it easy to do so.

Man, I'm really getting sick of these arguments...

They should include FLWM

[MongooseCN]

If they want performance and efficiancy they should include flwm. It's small simple and fast to use, and it takes about 10K of memory. Can you say that about Gnome or KDE?