05-29-2001
Why can't we buy Solaris 8 at CompUSA?
I was just on Suns website and found that you can actually download Solaris 8 and not have to pay the licensing fee. You can also purchase the OS on CD's for $75.00.
It seems also that Gnome 1.4 is supported too on Solaris 8 which would make the OS as easy to use as any Linux Distribution.
Why then doesn't Sun adopt a similar marketing stratagy as say SUSE or Redhat? Packaging there OS for the Desktop.
Couldn't they still maintain market share on the Server side while gaining some on the Desktop.
Why doesn't SGI do the same as well with IRIX?
Does anyone have an opinion on this?
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gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center(1) User Commands gnome-control-center(1)
NAME
gnome-control-center, gnome-desktop-prefs - configure GNOME desktop preferences
SYNOPSIS
gnome-control-center [-h] [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-control-center enables the user to configure their GNOME desktop. Most configuration choices can also be accessed directly from the
GNOME Panel Preferences menu.
Note: The gnome-control-center application also provides a library called libgnome-window-settings. This library is licensed under GPL.
Please see the license file at /usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs/gnome-control-center-2.24.0.1/COPYING.bz2 for implications when writ-
ing a program which uses this library.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-h Do not update the library with file changes.
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Desktop Preferences
example% gnome-control-center
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center
Executable for Desktop Preferences interface
/usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs/gnome-control-center-2.24.0.1/COPYING.bz2
Location of license file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Preference Tools Manual
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
cddb-slave2-properties(1), gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties(1), gnome-appearance-properties(1), gnome-at-properties(1), gnome-
default-applications-properties(1), gnome-display-properties(1), gnome-keybinding-properties(1), gnome-keyboard-properties(1), gnome-mouse-
properties(1), gnome-network-preferences(1), gnome-session-properties(1), gnome-sound-properties(1), gnome-ui-properties(1), gnome-window-
properties(1), gstreamer-properties(1), nautilus-file-management-properties(1), bzip2(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/
NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, updated by Brian Cameron and Halton Huo, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008.
SunOS 5.11 16 Sep 2008 gnome-control-center(1)