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Solaris 9 Will Be Updated WIth Gnome 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the pitter-patter-of-little-feet dept.

JAZ writes: "According to this article, 'The newest version of the GNOME open source desktop will not be ready in time to ship with Solaris 9 next year, but it will be included with a subsequent Solaris 9 quarterly update ...' Go Gnome!" I wonder if anyone truly prefers CDE.

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  1. CDE Roxors you dumb open sores lusers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's the best desktop ever. I have personally paid several hundereds of dollars for a working copy of CDE for Lunix. In the immortal words of Bender: bite my shiny metal ass.

  2. good bye by dukoids · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll switch to Linux and KDE before this can hit me... ;-)

  3. GNOME is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gnome is dead. why do you ask. because i say so because i know it. i am developing gnome myself and am getting pissed with every new day. GCONF = windows registry, no plugins system, 3 different configration systems, a tons of library which number increases every day. nautilus is slow and doesnt work properly, evolution permanently crashing and and and....

    kde, well its thought well, nice plugin system, nice concepts nice ideas. i wish gnome folks would addapt a lot from their stuff. even konqueror operates 200 times faster than nautilus. but anyways i am disapointed with the widgetset QT, no matter if its dual licensed now.

    we are now riding on a knifes edge with both environments. i doubt that GNOME 2.0 will kill all bad issues. i bet it will take for GNOME 3.0 or maybe 4.0 to compete with nowadays kde 2.2 at least from my opinion..

    a last sentence.. GNOME is opensource but the developing community is CLOSED. if you come to them and ask about fixes or suggest any ideas. they usually dont listen or piss you off...

    cheers...

  4. CDE? You've got to be kidding! by Philbert+Desenex · · Score: 1, Troll

    People actually use CDE? What on earth for? It's buggy, slow, ugly, has no apps, poorly documented, closed source and bloated. In short, it has absolutely *no* good points.

    I'm flabbergasted that anyone can prefer the steaming pile of crap that includes "dtterm" and that lame "tool bar" that takes up 12% of the screen and offers no noticeable benefits. I forget what that piece o' junk is called, the "control pane" or somesuch. It's the only thing worse than the Windows tool bar in terms of incomprehensibility and unusability.

    It just goes to show you - you can sell about a thousand of anything.

  5. Re:GNOME 2.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GNOME 2.0 will increase the suckiness by ~80%. That's right, it will now suck 260% more than KDE on the same hardware. Get Yours Today!

  6. Gnome blows by dens · · Score: 0, Troll

    I tried using gnome, but it just drove me nuts. I much prefer KDE.

  7. The Final Nope. by barneyfoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    the KDELIBS CANNOT BE UNDER LGPL.. DO YOU KNOW WHY?

    They are LINKED AGAINST A GPL LIB, IE QT.. HAHAHAHAHAHAH YOU ARE STUPID.