Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:56:04 +0200 From: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. Message-ID: <20010531185604.A39485@messiah.megadeb.org> In-Reply-To: <20010531124519.SSJB28488.mta10.onebox.com@onebox.com>; from ctjewett@zdnetonebox.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:45:19AM -0400 References: <20010531124519.SSJB28488.mta10.onebox.com@onebox.com>
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:45:19AM -0400, Christopher T. Jewett wrote: > > Now Sun and HP are actually considering GNOME for their > > own desktops. The commercial guys didn't rescue the commercial Unix > > desktop, so I fail to see where your touching faith in their ability > > to rescue BSD (or Linux) comes from. > > In case you missed it, they're not just considering it. It's actually > happening. Sun officially released Gnome 1.4 for Solaris 8 about 3 weeks > ago. > > http://www.sun.com/software/star/gnome/getgnome14.html > > They're not stopping their, either. After Gnome 2.X is released in mid > 2002, it will be the *default* desktop on Solaris. HP isn't sitting > on it's duff either. I was just going to give a heads-up on this. Rumor now has it they will actually *delay* Solaris 9 just for Gnome 2.0...on the same note, they apparently have at least two people hired to work on Gnome 2.0 full-time. -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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