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Re: [FW1] GUI Client for Linux
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> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:33:30PM -0400, Ron Atkinson wrote:
> > What CheckPoint needs to do first is to actually make a real Unix version of their
> > GUI interface and not a WindU version. I've run HP-UX and Solaris versions of the
>
> yes, and they should use some kind of a platform independent toolkit, so
> that porting between systems is easy. In fact I believe there is no
> reason for the GUI not to be open source... (except that they may be
> ashamed of the ways their Windows "programmers" did their job.)
When they dropped support for the OpenLook fwui I mailed checkpoint
asking if they would make it OSS. No reply at all. I much prefered
the OpenLook GUI to the Motif one. If they don't provide an X based
GUI then checkpoint will be history as far as I am concerned.
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