Sid Boyce wrote:
Steve wrote:
Richard Bos wrote:
Op woensdag 22 december 2004 21:12, schreef Sid Boyce:
I've installed the beta version of Solaris 10 for SPARC here, same old same old tired CDE and as far as I can tell, same old, same old dog to admin, so it shouldn't cause anyone's earnings to diminish if they do Solaris for a living.
Solaris 9 comes with gnome (I believe it is 2.2). I would think that 10 would come gnome 2.6 or maybe even 2.8...
It does come with gnome, although I'm not certain which version. I suspect that it also comes with CDE since a lot of people will yell if CDE isn't there (old dogs, new tricks, etc.). I thought the default was to be gnome, but I could be mistaken. It certainly is the default at work nowadays (ok, so I confess - I work at Sun). But we don't have any Solaris 10 machines available yet in our group.
Steve
The admin tools may still be old fashioned (it's at least not comparable to yast...)
The default is CDE, at least in the beta. I didn't get around to seeing what was available at the login screen - will check later. Even new dogs don't seem to be any more flexible, we've had guys who have done Solaris 1 and 2 who refuse to use the bash shell because the lecturer got them to use ksh and I know of only one guy who came back a bash convert, some of them spend the time to become experts in using "ksh -o vi" instead, something I am determined not ever to use, I can't even remember what the keyboard fingering is for any of it. If on 2.6 and 7 I can't get bash installed (customer's objection), I just type it all in. What, no scroungers in Sun? Surely you could get your hands on an Ultra5/10 and a cheap, i.e non-Sun IDE drive. Regards Sid.
Solaris 10 SPARC comes with gnome 2.4 (???says 2_0_4), replaced the /usr/dt/bin/Xsession with the gnome one and it works. CDE is a submenu of gnome. Clicking on START HERE or starting netscape is a lot slower opening than Sol9, but generally snappy for an Ultra 5/333MHz/128Meg under Solaris. Clicking on applications after START HERE and Nautilus is still has the pacman-like eater whirring around after 10 minutes, I presume it will be OK in the final. A lot OT, but some may like to know what the Linux competion is doing -- I'll shut up now. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====