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GNOME 2 to Replace CDE As Solaris Default DE
Gentu writes "OSNews had a quick chat with John Fowler, Sun Software's CTO about Solaris 10, Java, the web services competition and more. In the interview, Fowler reveals the timing in which Gnome2 will become the default desktop environment: Solaris 10, which is expected to have its first beta later in 2003. This is a huge step for Gnome2 in the UNIX world, as it will be replacing CDE for good as the default desktop environment (betas of Gnome 2 for Solaris 8/9 already exist) and becoming a standard part of the large operating environment with millions of installations worldwide. Additionally, Sun is now pushing developers on coding on either GTK+ 2.x or Java (they have in fact revealed plans on creating GTK+ bindings for Java which will make all future Solaris apps look like alike)."
Aw, look everybody! Isn't the antisemetic KDE troll cute?
Here, here! Wow, such an exhaustive and detailed description of the plague that has overtook gnome! Every free software developer should read this and most important, follow the links for yourself. This is not a troll, this is what is actually happening to one of the largest free software projects around.
Apple "unix" has no legal right to be called unix or even to be said to be based on unix. Steve Jobs is bending rules here. Neither OS X nor FreeBSD can use the unix trademark. It's not like I will like either of these two systems less because of that, just trying to be anal retentive ..
I hate to say it, but this won't mean diddly in the market. I've said it many times before and I'll keep saying it: If the Linux crowd wants to have a meaningful impact on the market it has to find a way to take a significant chunk of the mainstream desktop market from Windows. Anything less leaves MS in control and too powerful to fight or even contain (thanks to the Republicanization of the US gov't), and Linux stuck forever in its niche.