cde vs. gnome for sun rays
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006the thinguy, a.ka. craig bender, blogs on why he’s in favor of cde over gnome for sun ray environments. his main point is that gnome is not designed as a multi-user-per-desktop system, which is definately true. ever tried logging into a gnome-system with the same account twice? it goes mad quite fast… for example the gnome session manager is bugging around, even tho you’re not using it all.
anyway, cde is not what i’d call sexy nor up to date - an opinion that craig shares, as far as i have understood his posting. that’s why i am waiting for cam-support (controlled access mode, better known as kiosk mode) for gnome, which is supposed to come within the next two sun ray server v4 updates, as far as i know (no grants here, i’m not affilated with sun nor it’s engineering team for sun ray). perhaps we can then mix cam-only and normal users in a failover-group as well? would definately be cool!
