FW: [SunRescue] OS's

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

We were just having a chat over on the Sun Rescue Society List about
different OSs that we could run on our Suns, and got to chatting about GUIs.
Anyway, there are a couple of comments from me about my build of GNOME
yesterday morning (October tarball), and another comment from Bill.  He
seems to know a heck of a lot about the stuff that he works on, and can
adapt it pretty well.  If HE thinks it's a bear, what about all those people
who aren't as *NIX savy as he is?
	Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill@frenzy.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 10:09 PM
> To: rescue@sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] OS's
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:34:51PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > Yeah, I just spent the morning building GNOME actually.  :) 
>  Kinda crappy,
> > I'll admit.  But it's NOT hard, just a whole mess of 
> './configure; make;
> > make check;make install; ldconfig' nothing tricky on my RH 
> box.    You can
> > look at GNOME as an enhancement to your WM, but I use it 
> for the panel, and
> > the applications it provides.  I don't really think that 
> the panel type
> > things should be WM.  Besides, how much different is GNOME 
> from KDE or CDE?
> > They all fill a similar roll from what I can tell.  I'll 
> admit I haven't
> > used KDE too much, but the latest GNOME has as nice of a 
> look and feel as
> > the CDE from Solaris7.  
> > 	Greg
> 
> Thats the only problem with GNOME - its too Linux-centric, 
> and sometimes a
> pain to build on other OSes.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford * mrbill@sunhelp.org * http://www.sunhelp.org
> ------------------------------------------------------------
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> "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."
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