Linux desktop push could benefit disabled (fwd)

[Saqib Shaikh]

Hi, just to clarify:
Sun are not dropping Gnome yet.
What you may be confusing this with is the fact that Gnome will not be
included in Solaris version 9.0, which is due out early in January.  However
Gnome will be included in a future version of Solaris - Gnome 2 just won't
be ready in time I think.
I'm talking as an individual who has nothing to do with Sun whatsoever, but
this is what I think.
Saqib

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <tward at bright.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: Linux desktop push could benefit disabled (fwd)


> Well, according to the Gnome site Sun is still working on Gnome 2, and a
> early release of Gnome two is expected to come out later this year.
> From all the documentation I have read over the past few months there
isn't
> much credit to Sun dropping Gnome 2 just yet.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason" <unleet at qwest.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Linux desktop push could benefit disabled (fwd)
>
>
> > Well, it's a good thing that other companies have jumped on this,
because
> if
> > the lastest headlines from slashdot are correct, Sun has dropped out of
> the
> > GNOME projects recently
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday October 17, 2001 10:25 am, wacker at octothorp.org wrote
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:38:58 GMT
> > > From: Maurice A. Mines <mmines at mines-family.net>
> > > To: mmines at qwest.net
> > > Subject: Linux desktop push could benefit disabled
> >
> > [snip]
> > >    The project to develop the hooks needed for accessibility hardware
> and
> > >    software  was  begun by Sun Microsystems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.),
> but
> > >    has  now  gained  the help of a number of companies within and
> without
> > >    the  small  industry  that  focuses  on  accessibility for
> handicapped
> > >    people.  Among  them  are IBM, HP-Compaq and Linux proponents Red
> Hat,
> > >    Eazel and TurboLinux.
> > [snip]
> > >    "Gnome 2.0 has been completely redesigned; we're building full
> support
> > >    for  disabilities  into it," said Peter Korn, accessibility manager
> at
> > >    Sun, referring to the GNU project's Gnome platform for home and
> office
> > >    desktop PCs. "It's no longer just a Sun effort. We have gotten lots
> of
> > >    help from the open community."
> > [snip]
> >
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