On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:15:52 -0500, John Bleichert wrote: > I was trying to stay out of this thread, but... GNOME is prevalent on > Solaris because 1) building something like GNOME or KDE on Solaris is > non-trivial and you want the vendor (Sun) to do it for you. I have no idea > why many vendors have chosen GNOME. At least here at work and among the > geeks I know outside, KDE usage (on linux or BSD, whatever) is much higher > than GNOME usage, by a wide margin. YMMV. artsd does have some uses (see > below) and you can disable it if you want. I think that must be regional - in my hometown Gnome is far more popular than KDE - infact I dont think I know anyone who runs KDE. > Also, as I understand it, ALSA is standard (in linux) starting with 2.6.0, > right? Yes. - Steve
