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20041020 Wednesday October 20, 2004

Solaris 10 to create a BIG splash!

Solaris Splash

Yeah, I really mean just that. One of my astoned colleagues, Alan Coopersmith, of the X server team has integrated a new splash screen for dtlogin as of build 69. It might not look very impressive here, but it has really gotten some great comments from the users. It's these small details that will make Solaris a more modern looking OS.

As Solaris continues to get better on commodity hardware and the small details like this get polished out, Solaris will be the best ever.

( Oct 20 2004, 01:00:55 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [8]

Comments:

visually, two words... "very cool"

Posted by noel on October 20, 2004 at 01:08 AM PDT #

Cool! I've always thought one of the assets of Solaris was its great logo -- it's good that you keep it and improve it on this new splash screen :-)

Posted by Laurent Blume on October 20, 2004 at 04:01 AM PDT #

Hi Alan, When will build 69 be available for download?

Posted by Richard Skelton on October 20, 2004 at 04:24 AM PDT #

hi,

Yeah, i second that - when's the next build coming out (*rubs hands in anticipation*)?

bye, victor

Posted by Victor Hooi on October 20, 2004 at 04:38 AM PDT #

Looks really great. I have been using Solaris for years and can't wait for the big 10. But, I sure hope Sun has added more driver support, a better installer and better user tools. The reason Linux is kicking Sun's butt is because of these things. A really junior tech can install and run RH. Even if it costs more, RH still wins on TCO because of the lower level people that run it read --- cost of salaries :). When Sun fixes these problems and I hope 10 does, then ...

Posted by bill on October 20, 2004 at 06:11 AM PDT #

Keep your eyes peeled on the logo front... rumor has it that beta customers will be getting an even nicer surprise...

Posted by Anonymous on October 20, 2004 at 07:20 AM PDT #

"astoned"? I don't think I've ever been called that before...I'm not even sure I want to know what it means 8-)

[And just to be clear - I have no artistic talent, the images came from our much more talented artistic designers - I just turned them into something dtlogin could use, and beat dtlogin into submission so it would display them in a whole new way on the login screen.]

Posted by Alan Coopersmith on October 22, 2004 at 10:12 AM PDT #

Laurent, Victor, (and all;-)

69 should be available really soon now, I believe. I have heard that it is on it's way to being approved to go out, but that is not final yet. Look for it in the next week on Solaris Express hopefully.

bill,

Sun is paying for attention to find details like this, and the Solaris product is continuing to get better every day.

Alan,

I wouldn't say anything bad about you intentionally, but I'll leave you to look it up in the dictionary!;-)

Hey, artistic talent or not, you wrote the code that put it there, and that's a good thing!

Thanks all, for your comments!

Posted by Alan DuBoff on October 24, 2004 at 12:51 PM PDT #

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