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- From: aad@siemens.com. (Anthony Datri)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
- Message-ID: <111078@siemens.siemens.com>
- Date: 10 Dec 92 22:33:03 GMT
- References: <1992Dec3.080604.4308@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1992Dec8.051850.18525@alf.cooper.edu> <Bz0n4L.52I@avalon.nwc.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Siemens Corp. Res., Inc.
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- >>installed X11R5 "straight". It works great! I know OW3 is better
- >>than OW2, but I've seen it, and I'm still not impressed.
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- I won't comment on "better", but "bigger" is certainly true.
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- >Since SUN ships it with their Sparcs, whether or not one wants it is
- >irrelevant. It's already there.
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- You run the preinstalled stuff?
- >
- > - you get it bundled with (relatively) useful utilities (file mgr,
- > calendar mgr, calc, mailtool, etc, etc)
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- All of which, to my knowledge, have no dependency on the xnews server, and
- will run just fine against a normal server with normal libraries.
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- > - most of SUN's apps assume you have openwin installed
- >(AnswerBook, NewsPrint, cdmanager
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- If you use them in the first place.
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