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GNOME 2.12.0 has been ported to Sun Solaris x86

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GNOME 2.12.0 has been ported to Sun Solaris x86

Ken Mays of Blastwave.org has ported GNOME 2.12.0 to Sun Solaris x86 and has stable packages available for downloading at: http://www.blastwave.org/testing

Instructions for downloading other Blastwave packages are available in the user guide and mirrors section of the Blastwave organization's website.

Michael Gernoth is the lead maintainer of GNOME for Blastwave.

GNOME is one of the primary desktop environments used for Sun Solaris and is supported and maintained by the Blastwave organization.

HUH? Hasn't it always run on Solaris?

Hasn't GNOME always run on solaris? This page [1] on gnome.org mentions that GNOME ran on Solaris back to at least 2.2. So this isn't a matter of "porting" to solaris, it's just a matter of binary packages of 2.12 being available for solaris, right?

[1] http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2/