OpenWindows
Sign in to saveOpenWindows is a discontinued desktop environment for Sun Microsystems workstations which combined a display server supporting the X Window System protocol, the XView and OLIT toolkits, the OPEN LOOK Window Manager (olwm), and the DeskSet productivity tools; earlier versions of OpenWindows also supported the NeWS protocol. It implements the OPEN LOOK GUI specification.
Key facts
- Software.screenshot
- 250px|A screenshot of OpenWindows running the Mozilla web browser open to the front page of the English Wikipedia. The default DeskSet tools appear at the bottom of the screen.
- Software.caption
- OpenWindows running the Mozilla web browser. The default DeskSet tools appear at the bottom of the screen.
- Software.developer
- Sun Microsystems
- Software.released
- 1989
- Software.discontinued
- Yes
- Software.latest release version
- v3.6.2
- Software.operating system
- SunOS, Solaris, SVR4
- Software.platform
- PowerPC, SPARC, x86, x86-64
- Software.genre
- Desktop environment
- Software.license
- Proprietary
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OpenWindows is a discontinued desktop environment for Sun Microsystems workstations which combined a display server supporting the X Window System protocol, the XView and OLIT toolkits, the OPEN LOOK Window Manager (olwm), and the DeskSet productivity tools; earlier versions of OpenWindows also supported the NeWS protocol. It implements the OPEN LOOK GUI specification.
OpenWindows was included in later releases of the SunOS 4 and Solaris operating systems, until its removal in Solaris 9 in favor of Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and GNOME 2.0.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OpenWindows” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.