[osol-discuss] About Solaris (mistakes) and future

[Robert Milkowski]

Hello Girts,

Thursday, March 1, 2007, 9:14:39 AM, you wrote:

GZ> Hello,

GZ> Why I am writing this text, I am writing to talk about mistakes
GZ> which is founding in Solaris in its future.
GZ> I see two prototypes of installation system and I want to say all
GZ> two are bad, sorry bad. Why? Because these graphical GUI which
GZ> will need lots of memory to use. As we know that there are
GZ> millions of people who wants to use Solaris on their machines but
GZ> they cannot run it because it now need more memory than long time ago when there was Solaris 8.
GZ> Sorry Sun guys, developers, you are making big mistake and this
GZ> is bad for Solaris popularity and this is why people will prefer Linux!!!

I really don't understand you.
You can still install in a console mode without X at all.

GZ> JDS which is now in Solaris Express Community Build 57 and
GZ> Solaris Express Developer need more memory to run and there is no
GZ> need such GUI as JDS (Java GNOME) but there is need clean GNOME
GZ> where can be two Sun Microsystems created themes which can be used if you have very fast computer.
GZ> Think please what you are doing!

Hey, JDS is GNOME - it's just branding.

GZ> There is need to rename project JDS to GNOME and allow people of
GZ> community to work on improving GNOME and there must be new KDE
GZ> project where people of community can work on discussing and
GZ> recommendations for KDE in Solaris.

IIRC there's already KDE community around Solaris (see
http://solaris.kde.org) and another one here.

What's your problem with branding GNOME desktop as JDS?
It won't make it less or memory resource hungry.


GZ> I want to ask developers to think again about Solaris future.
GZ> Sorry Sun Microsystems, please think about people which don't
GZ> have fast computers and think how to improve CDE!!!

Forget about CDE - it's not a future.
There're other lightweight X environments also available on Solaris.
Perhaps making them easier to deploy on Solaris should be considered.


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