[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:33 AM, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Manish Chakravarty
> <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > I know Solaris/OpenSolaris are known for their exceptional stability and
> > uptime.
> >  But my SXDE is essentially unusuable for long development work :(
> >
>
> I suspect that this is more to do with JDS than anything else. Lot of
> desktop related changes, integration of new UIs continuously
> happening. (shift to gnome 2.2 is recent)
> When people talk about the solaris stability, it is the often
> underlying kernel/stack that is often being referred to.
>
> I have experienced the desktop unresponsiveness situation now & then.
> During resource intensive builds, I use light & plain WMs like
> fluxbox.
> I do not prefer using KDE or GNOME or even xfce during heavy build
> acitivity.


Hmm which would make JDS unsuitable for long development tasks.
I used JDS instead of KDE because I thought it would be tested rigorously. (
Since each SXDE release undergoes testing )
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