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How about porting it to Plan 9 http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ or Plan B?
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Because we are teh r0x.
Joking aside, I used to like Gnome very much, but it's feeling way heavier lately (2.12). I don't know if it's just the way I'm perceiving it, but I can't use it anymore without major annoyance. I'm running KDE now, it feels suprisingly way faster, despite of that glowy-aquatic-blue-yucky themes...
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err, debian unstable now uses xorg
nixbox:/home/yanik# X -version
X Window System Version 6.8.2 (Debian 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 20050908031534 David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>)
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux nixbox 2.6.12-1-k7 #1 Tue Sep 6 16:28:10 UTC 2005 i686
Build Date: 08 September 2005
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.12-1-k7 (dilinger@mouth) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050821 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-6)) #1 Tue Sep 6 16:28:10 UTC 2005 T
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I think it might be distro specific, how things are setup etc, Ive used 2.12 on gentoo, and it was very slow/buggy, now am using it on Fedora core 4, and its way faster than the default 2.10, and extremely stable, not to mention WAY easier to install (simple enable nrpms repo/ yum update/upgrade instead of unmasking tons of packages, recompiling different libs over and over again, and dealing with the DBUS/HAL dependancies, since gnome wants the newest, and the whole rest of the system wants the old/stable versions.) warning tho, the clipboard manager they raved about including, basically doesnt work, especially if you use any non gnome apps, and the menu editor is not even really an editor, use smeg instead.
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They might not - the idea is each app should add menu items when they are installed, so the user would never need to add an item manually themselves.
I understand the reasoning, but think it assumes a level of completeness that many apps haven't yet reached. I guess installing smeg should be easy enough.
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Just one more thing about gnome being more slow/buggy on gentoo - it might have been about your CFLAGS (-O3 uses more ram and is a bit more buggy but is however faster when it comes to CPU usage, while -Os uses less ram/diskspace and is less buggy, -O0 is the slow but definitive working option...) and USE-flags (lots of USE-flags = bunch of features, but more code). Just a thought, it may aswell have been other reasons.
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I believe I had it set at O2 for cflags, I was gonna recompile the system with --newuse but the crazy circular dependancies that wanna downgrade dbus hal and ivman/pmount then re-upgrade them later kinda steered me away (since the older dbus/hal didnt work, and the new ones did, and 2.12 wants them) n kinda lost interest in running gentoo now that I dont have as much time to constantly be messing with it...
anyways, on topic with the story, anybody tried gnome 2.12 on solaris/thoughts?
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"-O3 uses more ram and is a bit more buggy"
Not really in my experience. I find it either compiles or breaks. If a program breaks with -O3, the program's makefile forces -O2. Sometimes -O2 is forced when a program will run slower with -O3.
Anyway....
I welcome this port. I use computers in such a boring way nowadays that Open Office and a recent Gnome desktop is all I really need. Might as well be on Solaris as anything else.
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err, debian unstable now uses xorg
Actually Debian Testing uses XORG, as well. Yes, Debian Testing is making great strides. In the last couple of weeks it upgraded Gnome, too. OK, it moved to 2.10, but hey, it's progress.
Not a lot of Solaris users out there that use this site, are there? Putting it differently, perhaps there are Solaris users out there, but they don't much care about the latest desktop environment, or OpenOffice, or XORG, or anything else desktop related.
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I keep reading how one DE or WM is faster than another, but on my dual-Opteron workstation, they all seem pretty much the same to me! Go figure...
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On topic, I've been meaning to download Solaris x86_64, and now that they have Gnome (what I normally use on all my boxes), I have another reason to finally give it a whirl.
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I keep reading how one DE or WM is faster than another, but on my dual-Opteron workstation, they all seem pretty much the same to me! Go figure...
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On topic, I've been meaning to download Solaris x86_64, and now that they have Gnome (what I normally use on all my boxes), I have another reason to finally give it a whirl.
Solaris has had Gnome since Solaris 10 was released. Just not Gnome 2.12 seeing as it was released just recently.
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