On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, [email protected] wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:25:13 +0000, openbabel <[email protected]> wrote:
As an Enterprise system the commercial view should prevail?
This is based on the false premise that OpenIndiana is an enterprise
desktop operating system.
I would take more issue with the term "commercial". OpenIndiana is
based on an enterprise operating system, however, use as a desktop
(for use with packaged software) is not commercially viable. The term
"commercially viable" means that someone is willing to pay for the
system with the intent of using it as a desktop. This does not mean
that OpenIndiana can not offer a perfectly viable and useful desktop
which is almost as performant and feature rich as popular desktops.
OpenIndiana needs to offer a default desktop which is reliable and
lightweight since it may be attached to a server or need to be used
remotely. It should not require exotic GPU acceleration to be usable.
By current standards Gnome2 is "light-weight" even though it used to
be considered heavy-weight. KDE4 is pretty heavy.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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