[OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

Sriram Narayanan sriram at belenix.org
Thu Mar 31 02:58:19 UTC 2011


The primary Belenix Desktop environment continues to be KDE.

-- Sriram

On 3/31/11, Sriram Narayanan <sriram at belenix.org> wrote:
> Yes, we're still working on Belenix. Our day jobs are very exciting
> and keep us occupied enough that we're only able to make incremental
> progress.
>
> This has been a very interesting six months for the Belenix team
> members, so there's just occasional progress.
>
> -- Sriram
>
> On 3/30/11, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 07:59 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote:
>>> On 2011-03-30 01:51, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 04:15 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote:
>>>>> The Solaris OS was carefully designed as a product, Linux is a
>>>>> combination of technollogies carefully developed to interact with
>>>>> eachother but created in independent projects. Both of them a very
>>>>> well made, but the way how all the parts within Solaris relate to
>>>>> eachother is more consistent.
>>>>>
>>>>> Solaris and linux are like 2 different languages, both ritch on their
>>>>> own way, why shoulnt we write phylosopy in German?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Er...certainly the core is a carefully designed product but I would
>>>> not go so far as to claim the whole of Solaris is a carefully designed
>>>> product.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, when will KDE be brought on board instead of that
>>>> directionless excuse for a desktop environment called GNOME?
>>
>>
>>> But isn't Belenix (belenix.org) an OpenSolaris based (and in the future
>>> Illumos based) distribution with that very intention in mind?
>>>
>>
>> Eh? Last I heard, Belenix were aiming to be the first rpm based
>> OpenSolaris/illumos distro? Not sure about the KDE end of things though.
>>
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