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List:       opensolaris-desktop-discuss
Subject:    Re: [desktop-discuss] Future of Solaris on the desktop?
From:       Octave Orgeron <unixconsole () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2010-12-31 19:29:23
Message-ID: 428023.4483.qm () web30804 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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Speaking of applications. Has anyone considered taking Sun Studio and building 
the whole pkgsrc bundle and sticking it into IPS? I think that if we could host 
something like that on the opensolaris.org site we would pretty much cover all 
bases. It would also remove any FUD about not having enough software ready to 
install on any OpenSolaris based distro or Solaris 11.

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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com
E-Mail: unixconsole@yahoo.com
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----- Original Message ----
From: Ken Mays <maybird1776@yahoo.com>
To: desktop-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Fri, December 31, 2010 8:23:30 AM
Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Future of Solaris on the desktop?

Hi Tom,

You have several options as there are the major projects like KDE 4.x for 
Solaris project as well as the JDS/GNOME project (whom already chimed in).

Both, GNOME 2.30.2 and KDE 4.5.3 are recent major stable releases available to 
the Solaris/OpenSolaris community - well supported. GNOME 2.32.1 is also 
supported but GNOME 2.30.2 is officially used to stay compatible with Solaris 11 
Express (b151a).

As Alan mentioned, on x86 you have the Nvidia graphics as the major 2D/3D 
resource and updates to Oracle's Xorg 7.x implementation still continues.

The main thing is making sure you use 'known to work' legacy devices for desktop 
purposes. Don't go 'off the grid' and buy hardware devices without checking the 
HCL or Sun Support resources/IHV forums. As for applications, you have recent 
compilers like GCC 4.5.2 and Sun Studio 12.2 to port and build what you need (or 
get the assistance here (or elsewhere).

~ Ken Mays
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