[OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

[Jonathan Adams]

does anyone know how any of these (lxde, xfce, etc) fare on SunRays?

On 4 January 2011 14:22, Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:21 +0000, Peter Tribble wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:
>> > Jonathan,
>> >
>> > There are lightweight alternatives to Gnome available with a bit of work.
>> >  KDE is pretty close to Gnome in terms of weight.  I had used XFCE happily
>> > for awhile.  It is lightweight and snappy and didn't bring my laptop to it's
>> > knees.  It also has a CDE-like look and feel.
>> > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+xfce/
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it's not being actively supported or
>> > developed anymore.
>>
>> Xfce is really here:
>>
>> http://www.xfce.org/
>>
>> and is very much under active development, with 4.8 just around the corner
>> and pre-release versions of 4.8 currently available.
>>
>> I run the current 4.6.2 as my primary home desktop and have done for some
>> considerable time - it works extremely well. I also try and make sure that the
>> Xfce releases work on Solaris, and have added Solaris support to some of the
>> applications and panel plugins.
>>
>> Of course, the number of Xfce developers is relatively small compared to
>> the big boys of GNOME and KDE, so I'm sure that more help (and more
>> users) would be welcomed.
>>
>
> Another up and coming lightweight desktop environment is LXDE:
>
> <http://lxde.org/>
>
>
> I've used Xfce off and on since pre Xfce4 days and would subjectively
> rate LXDE as significantly lighter - lightweight enough that my kids
> have a couple 700 MHz PII boxes running it. LXDE also uses my favorite
> window manager, OpenBox.  I don't think I've ever heard mention of an
> OpenSolaris/Indiana or Solaris port though.
>
> --
> Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net>
>
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