Three years after pledging to integrate its Solaris operating system with the open source Gnome (GNU Object Model Environment) desktop, Sun Microsystems is finally ready to deliver. "The next version of Solaris, Version 9 8/03, which will begin shipping on Sun’s systems on Aug. 13, will offer users the choice of running Solaris with the look and feel of the Gnome 2.0 desktop, instead of booting up with the more traditional CDE (Common Desktop Environment) user interface."

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