Re: New Emacs with GTK!

[Sven Utcke]

Jason Earl <jearl@wegointer.net> writes:

> Michael Powe <michael@trollope.org> writes:
> 
> >>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
> >
> >     Alan> Solaris 9 will be shipping Gnome as the default desktop.
> >     Alan> http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/licensing/gnome.html
> >
> > thanks for the update.  myself, i can't see where gnome is a huge
> > improvement over the cde interface ... yes, it looks nicer but it is
> > just a resources hog.  still.
> 
> Sun sells hardware.  Desktop software that looks nice but needs more
> resources to run well is good for their bottom line.

Well, SUN sells _slow_ hardware, so I still don't see how gnome would
help them --- just the opposite, people will be able to compare
performance with their supermarket-bought home PCs --- and will see
SUN come out second.  Certainly happens here, on brandnew SunBlades
(which, truth be told, are hardly more than SUN-labbeled supermarket
PCs anyway, and pretty good awful ones for that).

Sven
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