Solaris Express 12/2005 (derived from Nevada Build 27) was posted recently, providing a variety of improvements. ZFS and the "Yosemite" UDP performance project were added. Roughly 700 bugs were fixed. You can obtain a free download. An overview of new features is also available.
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Member since:2005-10-08
"That's correct, and I think they made a step in the proper direction with JDS. But to design and implement a whole new GUI based on Qt4?"
They won't. Because of Qt's licensing. If they had based the standard desktop on Qt rather than Gtk, they would have locked all of their commercial software partners into having to pay extremely high licensing fees to license the Qt toolkit for each of their GUI developers.
I suspect the Qt vs. Gtk licensing issue is the main reason KDE lost out to Gnome at becoming the standard Unix desktop. It might be possible to argue that KDE is more popular anyway on Linux. And that might be true. But Gnome is the one that has all the industry backing such as Sun, IBM, HP, and Red Hat. Sun has full time developers assigned to work on Gnome, as does Red Hat of course.
Member since:I think your assuming that Sun would require vendors
to compile with QT which they could still offer the
LGPL version of Gnome. Ironic that Sun ships Mysql
but dosn't require commercial vendors of databases
into a cluase of using Mysql as the database. QT
has it advantages in delivering on embedded
platforms, i.e. pda's a cell phones. GTK and Gnome
still has to come up with a strategy for these
platforms. If they ever will. KDE is really a
logical progression of CDE while Gnome is still
finding it's roots.
Member since:
2005-07-06
That's correct, and I think they made a step in the proper direction with JDS. But to design and implement a whole new GUI based on Qt4? I'd be teriffic if they did, but I do not think they have the desire nor the resources to do so.