Plastic on Solaris 10
Well, it's been a *real* pain to build mono on Solaris 10!! Compared to this building in OpenSolaris was veeeery easy.I'll try to repeat the process in the coming days and try to create a detailed guide. Building libgdiplus was specially painful, but I guess I've been doing something wrong (I hope!).
And then, finally, a real "back to the future" screenshot here:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZQqTnNqef1cLTPUHe0ID3ZbFjMkx05tFJ9YZHbzVEpT37eecSvUBGf6G2D7pJc0AM1Anc5PAbHTDLbd2L3BoHFUxW-j3NxAqATKOU66xXq_kSoTojiwx6JkP8w1vMsmz7jrfkdA/s400/solaris10cde2.jpg)
I used to love this beauty about ten years ago, and now it doesn't look that nice anymore (although I still like it :-D).
And another screenshot, this time with a most modern look & feel:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSGda3fugOl2UMV2hjO8Lq7KQ4KwoR7tQGN3Sm0UrbUa4dmLh4eLd0mSGTVgx_MK_9KkZwBZKJe5AxCcODBZF26RYBXfweXZf8iE5tNb7UL-mkXEr__cV6W_ndhytcWDmCHnTqhQ/s400/plasticsolaris10java.jpg)
I love Solaris, so being able to run the Plastic GUI there is some sort of Christmas present for me... :-) I love Solaris since I started reading the Jim Mauro articles about threading and so on, and later his great book about internals.
But, to be honest, after being using Mac OS X (10.4 & 10.5) for the last three years (and almost on a daily basis during the last weeks) it's clear there's a message for the Solaris folks out there: hire a graphics designer! (ok, if you have one... fire him and hire a new one!!)
So, what's next? Ok, there's only one OS I like better than Solaris... OpenBSD! So stay tuned..
and after OpenBSD... OS X!?
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ReplyDeleteOS X is *already* there! We've just to upload our website to include the download package. If you can't wait I can send you a direct link...
This is fantastic! I look forward to a detailed description!
ReplyDeleteMotif always has a sub-standard look...
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