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- From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
- Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX a
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.161330.16572@news.duc.auburn.edu>
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- Organization: Auburn University Engineering
- References: <1992Dec19.170637.668@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:13:30 GMT
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- In article 668@lokkur.dexter.mi.us, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
- >At the LISA conference we had a Sun-Managers BOF. I surveyed the
- >audience and asked a number of leading questions (hey, it was my BOF :-))
-
- I was at this BOF and it was very interesting. However, to get more in
- depth on the use of window systems I think the following questions should
- be asked:
-
- 1. What window manager do you use? olwm, olvwm, twm, tvwm, mwm, other.
-
- The reasoning is that to ask someone if they use Motif or OpenLook is
- pretty useless. There are many apps that use one or the other or both.
- So if the question is rephrased to be what window manager you use, I
- think that anything *virtual* is better than anything not, so olvwm and
- tvwm would garner a lot of votes.
-
- 2. What GUI do your apps use? openlook, motif, or other.
-
- other would win this one hands down.
-
- 3. If OpenWindows were as fast as X11/R?, would you still hate it?
-
- It seems that the biggest reason people dog OpenWindows is because of
- its speed. *If* Sun fixes that...
-
-
- The biggest reason my organization supports OpenWindows is because of
- AnswerBook. I don't see how any large site can survive the onslaught
- of paper manuals. I count 89 books in my Solaris 2.1 merged answerbook
- already. We would run out of physical space and go broke if we had to
- have hardcopy versions of those manuals for even a small subset of our
- 2300+ users.
-
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