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OpenWindows
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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.
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![]() OpenWindows running the Mozilla web browser. The default DeskSet tools appear at the bottom of the screen. | |
Developer(s) | Sun Microsystems |
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Initial release | 1989 |
Final release | v3.6.2
/ February 2000; 24 years ago (2000-02) |
Operating system | SunOS, Solaris, SVR4 |
Platform | PowerPC, SPARC, x86, x86-64 |
Type | Desktop environment |
License | Proprietary |
Website | download |
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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.