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0 pointsbkor6y ago0 comments

> Do you know the story behind why Sun was doing this work?

See e.g. https://www.gnome.org/press/2000/08/sun-joins-gnome-foundati.... Quote:

> Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it is joining the GNOME Foundation [..] Sun also announced it will adopt GNOME 2.0 as the future desktop for its Solaris[tm] Operating Environment.

Be warned, above announcement is from August 2000.

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Carpetsmoker6y ago· 1 in thread

OpenSolaris used Gnome2 by default until Oracle killed it.

yjftsjthsd-h6y ago

And I believe OpenIndiana is still using MATE as their default DE, which is... sorta funny actually; the fork/continuation of OpenSolaris running the fork/continuation of GNOME 2.

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