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Java Desktop System Rivals XP, OSX in Usability

Posted by michael on from the slobber-slobber dept.

protohiro1 writes "In this glowing review Chris Gulker calls Sun's Java Desktop System 'the most polished and real-world user-ready Linux desktop in existence.' Well, I'm sold. Will this finally sell the PHBs on a linux corporate desktop?" Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

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  1. Re:i'm interested... by ozric99 · · Score: 4, Funny
    The enlarged screenshot is actually here, for anyone interested.

    Enlarged? I'd probably think it was enlarged if I was browsing using my phone. Just how small does something have to be for it to enlarge to that size?

    Oh, wait.. we're geeks. Small is good... remember the mantra, small is good... it's how you use it that counts.. ;-)

  2. How many mouse buttons req'd ? by gellenburg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any desktop which requires the user to use more than one mouse button obviously can't be all that great. ;-)

  3. Re:Java desktop for free by lewp · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's really frightening.

    --
    Game... blouses.
  4. Re:Sun, eh? by marmoset · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yep, that's certainly been the experience of the KHTML team, right? The rendering fixes here, for instance never make it back into Konqueror, right?
    stuff they couldn't write themselves

    Yep, because if there's one thing someone like Jordan Hubbard couldn't manage, it's writing BSD userland code.

    (extended eyeroll)