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Ximian for HP-UX

Posted by timothy on from the cross-platform dept.

PenguinX writes: "It seems that the folks out at Ximian and HP have delivered on the promise to make Ximian Gnome (1.2) for HP-UX." Another nail in the CDE coffin ;)

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  1. Re:Who does this benifit commercially by Eric+Gibson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Answer. This just helps HP-UX system administrators goof off. :-) I actually like the HPUX Visualize workstations, they kick ass as far as the hardware is concerned. I roast comparable ultra5 workstations on a regular basis, running benchmarks on the code I'm fiddling with. Hell yeah, I wouldn't mind one of those running GNU tools instead of a puny x86 linux box. In fact, I used to work at HP and a couple days before I left I saw a guy in the lab boot an hp9000 using the linux kernel to bash. It was pretty neat. Though I'm not sure if there are PIX drivers yet to run X.

  2. why 1.2? by ksheff · · Score: 2

    Isn't the current version of Ximain Gnome at 1.4? Does this mean that they had problems with Nautilus on HP-UX and just decided to use GMC and call it 1.2? Maybe this helps explain the CDE compatible mode that you can select when running the Ximian setup program for the first time.

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  3. cde... by josepha48 · · Score: 2
    completely dead environment.. well not yet but thats what it looks like is happening to it.

    I'm kinda glad, as UNIX needs a new face. It is interesting that Ximian / Gnome is the one that it is getting rather than kde. Both HP and Sun are kinda backing gnome. Interesting though

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    1. Re:cde... by josepha48 · · Score: 2

      you obviously missed the "well not yet part of the comment".. the point it that cde is on its way out. if you want a free version of a WM like that on Linux try xfce.

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  4. FreeBSD? by Tachys · · Score: 2

    Anyone know of any plans to get ximian on FreeBSD or any other BSDs?