Solaris 9 Will Be Updated WIth Gnome 2.0 374
JAZ writes: "According to this article, 'The newest version of the GNOME open source desktop will not be ready in time to ship with Solaris 9 next year, but it will be included with a subsequent Solaris 9 quarterly update ...' Go Gnome!" I wonder if anyone truly prefers CDE.
hot damn (Score:0, Funny)
That's all.
Preferring CDE? Compared to what? (Score:5, Funny)
You're only wondering that because you haven't experienced the pain of OpenWindows[tm], winner of the [entirely fictitious and just-invented] Most Unintuitive Interface In The Entire Fscking World Award.
Drop-down menus are dropped down with which button? The first, you say? Oh no, that would be far too obvious and industry-standard. The third button drops down a menu. If you press the first button, it activates the first entry in the menu, without ever dropping the menu down. Sort of a speed-select. Confusing as flaming fuck to people who don't expect it: if the first entry is "New Window" then you merely have windows popping up. "I clicked on "File" and a new window popped up? Huh?"
If the first entry is more, shall we say, "proactive," then you just lost data. Or had a file overwritten when you were just experimenting. Or... who knows what just happened, since there may not be any visual feedback to whatever the fsck the first menu entry happens to be.
I and my users were both extremely happy when we were able to move from OpenWindblows to CDE. They will be happier still if I ever get the chance to build KDE 2.2 for my SPARCs.
*BSD-is-dying-posting is dying. (Score:1, Funny)
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD-is-dying-posting's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD-is-dying-posting faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD-is-dying-posting because *BSD-is-dying-posting is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD-is-dying-posting. As many of us are already aware, *BSD-is-dying-posting continues to lose trolling share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. *BSD-is-dying-posting is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
*BSD-is-dying-posting leader Benny "Stupid Trolling Retard" McGoatfucker states that there are 7000 *BSD-is-dying-posters. How many *BSD-is-dying-posters are there? Let's see. The number of *BSD-is-dying-posting versus Imagine-a-Beowulf-cluster posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 *BSD-is-dying-posting users. Goatse.cx-link posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of *BSD-is-dying-posting posts. Therefore there are about 700 posters of Goatse.cx links. A recent article put *BSD-is-dying-posting at about 80 percent of the idiotic trolling posts. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 *BSD-is-dying-posters. This is consistent with the number of *BSD-is-dying Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, *BSD-is-dying-posting went out of business and was taken over by Klerck who post other idiotic trolls. Now Klerck is also dead, his corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD-is-dying-posting has steadily declined in trolling share.
*BSD-is-dying-posting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD-is-dying-posting is to survive at all it will be among no life redneck retards. *BSD-is-dying-posting continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD-is-dying-posting is dead.
Re:GNOME 2.0 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Preferring CDE? Compared to what? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Preferring CDE? Compared to what? (Score:3, Funny)
I got to discover OpenWindows' many qualities (sigh) when working in Denmark. My machine, a SPARC, was oooold as hell. So old that I actually saw a configure script tell me:
Humiliating.
This said, it's OpenWindows that got me hooked on the 'focus follows mouse pointer' scheme. Guess it wasn't entirely bad after all.