Subject: Re: Gnome from Binaries...
To: None <segv@netctl.net>
From: Greg Evans <greg.evans7@verizon.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/18/2005 17:22:14
awww.....i kinda like the Java Desktop on my Ultra 10 :)

Maybe I will try KDE on the ultra1 instead...heh

Oh and has anyone compiled the latest boinc code (4.x I think) for  
NetBSD? I was thinking it would be fun to use the Ultra1 as yet  
another SETI cruncher :)  then I don't *really* need X ;)

Greg
On Nov 18, 2005, at 5:11 PM, segv@netctl.net wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:50:21 +0100
> Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:46:59AM +0000, segv@netctl.net wrote:
>>> Maybe you're experiencing threading bugs, which are known to  
>>> exist for
>>> sparc64 port.
>>
>> None of the crashes I saw was threading related.
>> And it doesn't work well on i386 either (at least for me).
>>
>> Martin
>
> Well I used Gnome once, it was so bloated and taking up so much RAM  
> that I
> never bothered to give it another try. Then I thought I found a  
> good desktop
> environment in the form of Xfce4, but the quality of their code is  
> appalling:
> it leaks memory all over the place and you can't compile it with  
> anything but
> gcc.
>
> What makes me laugh is the fact that there are many dozens of  
> window managers,
> etc, but they all suck. Guess what I'm using on Solaris - CDE, it  
> doesn't have
> all the eye candy, but at least it's small, fast and it works. Oh  
> yeah and the
> first thing I did when I installed Solaris was to remove their Java  
> Desktop and
> all Gnome packages :-)