23 Oct
2018
23 Oct
'18
10:19 a.m.
Even though Oracle only sells server hardware running Solaris, there are
customers running Solaris on laptops and other systems with graphic
consoles. When I bring up Solaris 11.4 in VirtualBox, I get a Gnome
desktop. (I work on USB and boot, so I don't pay much attention to the
desktop and couldn't tell you what version of Gnome it is.)
alan
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On 10/23/18 10:08 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
AIX probably still has them but graphic consoles are
pretty rare now
most AIX boxes are used as servers these days.
Paul.
On 2018-10-23 2:05 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 10/23/2018 10:47 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk
wrote:
This may be an unfortunate mismatch of English
idioms.
Fair.
"Out there", to me, means
"current, available/on sale/in use now, in
active use and/or maintenance".
I'm fairly sure that Solaris and AIX both continue to ship C.D.E. ;-)
That notwithstanding, I have to say, I still
think it's ludicrous to
imply that anything _before_ Win95 could have drawn upon it, even if
making a negative statement.
Hence why I prefer to be excruciatingly clear.