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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)."
I'd have had first post if I hadn't wasted 40 sec. erasing porn from my HD...
all your nigger
are belong
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us
could someone tell me exactly what an "alike" looks like?
Umm, can I submit a response later?
Secound Post, Ha! Okay that was offtopic but it was my first time :)
Is a Gnome and a Troll the same thing??
just get rid of /usr/openwin already ... please!
Looks like another corporation going along the lines of Red Hat in trying to ressurct Gnome from a peacful and slow death. KDE vill dominate!
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
What garbage!
It actually has no importance at all to KDE.
Apart from showing that KDE is, to all intents and purposes, a dead man walking?
KDE is the leading linux Desktop worldwide and only Redhat's stubbornness has kept GNOME alive in the USA.
Keep repeating this, and some morons may even believe it. KDE is *only* the default for loser distros with bugger all market share. Red Hat and Mandrake both fully support GNOME, and that accounts for the vast bulk of Linux installations. Sun and HP both use GNOME as their default commerical desktop. KDE is a minority zealot's desktop... used only by the loud mouth obnoxious shouters who fill up slashdot and various other Linux sites with ill-conceived garbage.
KDE-3.1 will be released today or tomorrow and it is much more advanced than any other Desktop I have tried including GNOME-2, which is very hard to customize. All desktop distributions except for Redhat default to KDE.
KDE is way behind GNOME is important matters such as i18n, accessiblity, component architecture, bindings... but hey, KDE supports faked alpha blended menus... whoopee...
Do you really think that just because GNOME is used on all new Solaris company Desktops, a single KDE linux user will switch to GNOME?
Possibily, possibly not. Who cares? KDE users are tiny, *tiny* minority -- get over it. Effectively, no-one uses KDE for serious work. It is just not on anyone's radar for serious desktop use. GNOME on the other hand is focussed on grabbing the huge bulk on people who need an easy to use desktop for business use.
Besides, from what I've seen, no-one wants KDE users. They are the lepers of the Free software world... obnoxious fools with no skills and big mouths.
Seriously, how many people use Solaris on a Desktop? 10000?
No-one you know... you see, it's used by people who have something called "real jobs". Scientific research and such... in other words, work which doesn't involve wearing a paper hat and a name tag.
KDE is GPL software, just like linux and QT is GPL software just like linux. Maybe we should relicense the kernel to LGPL so that Sun, MS and IBM can use it better? Don't you notice how ridiculous this is?
Now that you mention it, yes, your comment is ridiculous -- as well as specious, and moronic. How much is per-developer fee for writing a closed-source program which uses the Linux kernel? It's about $2000 to write one which uses Qt (and by extention, KDE).
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.
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.
I don't use bloato gnome or bloato kde.
If I was I would use kde.
I use icewm.
I use gtk apps as I see fit.
gnome is too much under the corporate thumb.
kde is more in the linux tradition.
Ximain and Rhat are a pain in the arse.
Rhat has help Linux back by not adopting apt
and debs.
bah.