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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Trying to research UNIX OS
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 10:14:06 -0700
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Rick Kelly wrote:
> 
> Evan Leibovitch (evan@telly.telly.org) wrote:
> : In article <3165E743.2F3A@cet.co.jp>, Li Zhengchun  <lilyli@cet.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> : >Xinside has licensed Solaris CDE and will be providing it on numerous
> : >platforms including UnixWare, BSDI, and Linux.  I think we will soon see
> : >a *fast*, less memory intensive implementation of CDE soon.
> 
> : X Inside does very-well-optimized X servers, but I'm not sure that they
> : have any key to speeding up CDE that folks like Triteal haven't done.
> 
> : Note that Red Hat Software is also working on a CDE for Linux, I believe
> : in co-operation with Triteal.
> 
> And you do have to consider that Sun provides CDE "as is", as they are
> still gambling on Openwin.  I found CDE to be very flaky on a Ultra Sparc
> 3D running Solaris 2.5.

All the more reason to look to a third party such as Xinside or TriTeal 
for CDE.

> And I still can't think why I would want my system to look like it is running
> HPUX, as good as HPUX is...

This is a side effect.  The objective is to have a common desktop 
environment.

-- 
Michael Hancock
michaelh@cet.co.jp