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Gnome 1.4 Available for Solaris 8
iamriley writes: "According to this, Sun is making Gnome 1.4 available for customers 'to test drive, explore, and evaluate an early version of the GNOME desktop for the Solaris[tm] Operating Environment, SPARC[tm] and Intel Architecture Editions.'"
As far as I remember this was available on Sun's site for months(at least I have used it in 2001 August. Also if you look at the page, Sun links to press release of 2000, as "last August". So on all counts this page was written in last year.
So what is new in this??????
It's been available since May 22.
I used it on my Sparc 5 / Solaris 8 workstation at work, but it's dog slow, and many of the more advanced apps don't work (Like the silly panel apps like the Gdict lookup box, the CPU & monitor graphs; but also more advanced apps like Gnome-Pilot ) .
Also, many of the Sun packages have not changed in months, even though some of the apps and packages have seen heavy development since Sun's Gnome release.
My guess is that the Sun Gnome developers are working on Gnome2.0 instead. Really, I don't know what they are doing... there are no Solaris specific mailing lists to monitor, and there are few mentions of Solaris Gnome on the Gnome mailinglists.
I use Ximian Gnome on Solaris. It's faster & more stable then Sun's Gnome, and more packages work (But not Gnome-pilot, which is what I need for my work). But, you are subject to the whims & slow connections of red-carpet.
Does anyone else have any comparisons?
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Common Sense:
do -not- install this on any machine that's remotely important.
It has some problems - It doesn't even like running on some Ultra 5's with PGX32 cards.
It has been my experience that, direct from packaging, Sun Gnome Preview isn't even remotely production quality. It's not a CDE Replacement.
Opinion Starts Here:
I like CDE. Gnome should stay away.
:)
I wish if they could fix the PPP applet. modem
configuration in gnome/linux-bad was piece of cake,
this one is still tough.
CDE requires rpc to even work properly. Not to mention the bi-weekly Sun Security Bulletins about various aspects of the CDE environment. (dtspcd being the most recent. rpc.ttdbserverd, dtmail, the list is endless). If you like CDE, you must not have used anything else for any extended length of time.