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

[ken mays]

Johnathan,

IceWM and OpenBox are very lightweight window managers. XFCE for a desktop environment. Best to use a lightweight window manager unless you need more...

~ Ken Mays

--- On Tue, 1/4/11, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 9:28 AM
> 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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