Submitted by Ken Mays of Blastwave.org has ported GNOME 2.12.0 to Sun Solaris x86 and has stable packages available for downloading here. Instructions for downloading other Blastwave packages are available in the user guide and mirrors section of the Blastwave organization’s website.
How about porting it to Plan 9 http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ or Plan B?
Why would you port a huge, grossly inefficient memory-hogging desktop to a sleek, light and innovative OS?
I don’t know, whay don’t you ask directly to KDE devs. why did they ported it?
why do we have to listen to these annoying anonymous types ?
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…
Gnome 2.12 used 40% of my 256 MB ram on this box… Gnome is good, and used to be my favourite, but for the moment I prefer e17, fluxbox and ion/wmii.
The thing I forgot to mention was fluxbox used about 10 MB of ram for buffers… If you count cache aswell, gnome used 100% and fluxbox aswell.
That’s weird, because that’s the reason I stopped using KDE, or should I say KDMEss? eats to much memory even if you are not using anithing and is to slow.
That’s the way I felt about KDE in the past, and then decided to try Gnome and loved it, running with 256 RAM. Now I can’t run Gnome with 512 RAM while KDE 3.4 runs well enough.
That’s the way I felt about KDE in the past, and then decided to try Gnome and loved it, running with 256 RAM. Now I can’t run Gnome with 512 RAM while KDE 3.4 runs well enough.
well, I’ve got 512 mb of ram and I run Gnome flawlessy, so you should check your hardware and/or configuration ASAP. Your pc could have serious problems.
I always found Gnome to be far faster than KDE. Except for my brief time with Yoper
That’s weird, because that’s the reason I stopped using KDE, or should I say KDMEss? eats to much memory even if you are not using anithing and is to slow.
You don’t have too. Just go to your Preferences and filter them out.
Ditto for that one…
Someone like gnome, someone like kde, someone like ion, someone like *box, someone don’t like X, someone … No reason for discussing it, everyone has their own opinion anyways.
god bless you
Seems every platform/distro will get gnome 2.12 before debian…. it’s not even in the experimental repo yet!!!
is gnome 2.12 classed as stable yet ?
debian likes stuff to be stable
so much so that they still use Xfree86
if you want new stuff, try a distro that supports new UNSTABLE stuff
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 <[email protected]>)
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
Off topic, but on my Gentoo system KDE 3.4 boots up using about 80 megs of RAM and no swap. That’s pretty light in my opinion.
Apparently there are things that cannot be mentioned with regard to other things without reruns:
The GNOME Show
Everybody Loves KDE
Managed Runtime: Java
Managed Runtime: CLR
Newton’s Apple
Itanic
True Microsoft Stories
Two hundred channels and there’s nothing on.
So sad, but so true…
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.
hollovoid
Agree about the menu editor, it can’t do more than deactivating items… However, thei’ll probably make adding items a feature in the future
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.
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.
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?
Myself I have yet to try solaris at all…
Is the difference between O2 and O3 really perceivable? I doubt it!
I’m running Gnome on the Nevada build, and it pretty much rocks and rolls… anyone else running Nevada?
I thought it was about Solaris 10 too. You see more posts going on a tangent here nowadays. Now, seeing that the JDS is really gnome, is your installation a barebones gnome then? How would you compare?
@ jaboua
“-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.
Sometimes it however does result in code which compiles, but won’t run.
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.
indeed. They just got NVidia drivers… What they want now is some native games
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…
🙂
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.
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…
🙂
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.
Ah – thanks for the info. I didn’t know that. Shows how much I’ve looked into Solaris at this point.
Does this mean GNOME will now be ready for full bore DTrace profiling, that should yield some fruit, at least in identifying any performance issues, not just in gnome, but also GTK and other underlying structures.