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GNOME 2 to Replace CDE As Solaris Default DE

Posted by timothy on from the hey-where-are-all-the-mourners dept.

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)."

3 of 388 comments (clear)

  1. The end of solaris by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure the CDE has its problems, but it was relativly compact, almost impossible to break, and actually worked.

    gnome (1 and 2) on the other hand is bloated almost as badly as windoze, buggy, horribly slow, and IMHO butt ugly.

    KDE is just as bad, but more responsive and less butt ugly.

    I use windowmaker for everything, its small, fast, unbreakable, and very simple to use.

    With this move Sun is trying to turn Solaris into Linux, in the same way that RH/MDK etc are trying to turn Linux into windoze.

    Someone at Sun is smoking something really illegal to come up with this

  2. first p0st!!!! by p00p · · Score: 0, Troll

    please excuse me but my first post is today! and i cannot help but notice that poop is gooey too. haha just joking, of course ;) but seriously.. it IS kinda gooey, yeah? of course it is, or at the very least one might suppose that it certainly CAN be born with that quality provided the constituents of said feces are properly prepared.

    I think that the GUI has run its inevitable course and now Linux is moving away from the desktop metaphor into the command line. after all, that's where its strength lies - not in shoddy crap like GNOME and KDE. It's time for a breakthrough and GNOME 2 is _not_ it. Sorry to say so.

  3. Re:why Gnome? by Isle · · Score: 1, Troll

    Because they decided not to buy Trolltech when Qt was small and unknown, and now they have commited themselves to GNOME for years.

    I've seen interviews where Sun' officials regret not buying Trolltech and supporting KDE, but that it is too late to change horses now.