On 11/ 1/12 02:20 PM, Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>> from what I remember of the conversations of the time, we cannot move
>> to Gnome 3 because of certain Linux dependencies ...
>>
>> Gnome 2 is no longer changing, and no longer being patched ...
>
> The problem with Gnome 3 is AFAIK mostly a problem of Illumos libc
That's just one of the problems. You'll also need better graphics
driver support, unless you don't mind telling people to just stick
to the Nvidia closed driver and ensure the illumos kernel remains 100%
binary compatible with the private interfaces the nvidia driver uses
from the Solaris kernel.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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