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> Do you know the story behind why Sun was doing this work? See e.g. https://www.gnome.org/press/2000/08/sun-joins-gnome-foundation/ https://www.gnome.org/pres
by bkor 7y ago
> Do you know the story behind why Sun was doing this work?
See e.g. https://www.gnome.org/press/2000/08/sun-joins-gnome-foundation/ https://www.gnome.org/press/2000/08/sun-joins-gnome-foundati.... Quote:
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it is joining the GNOME Foundation [..] Sun also announced it will adopt GNOME 2.0 as the future desktop for its Solaris[tm] Operating Environment.
Be warned, above announcement is from August 2000.
- Carpetsmoker 7y agoOpenSolaris used Gnome2 by default until Oracle killed it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoAnd I believe OpenIndiana is still using MATE as their default DE, which is... sorta funny actually; the fork/continuation of OpenSolaris running the fork/continuation of GNOME 2.