Mad Hatter Preview - Sun Java Desktop System Demo

bengine writes "According to this article, Sun Java Desktop System is a good product overall, built on the well-established SuSE system with integration from Sun. It delivers what appears to be a very useful desktop OS and it has the chance to make a dent in the Windows monopoly. But Sun will have to differentiate itself on its quality, hardware, services and reputation. That means a lot of hard work, so the key questions will be how well they execute their strategy, how much public acceptance they gain and what message they convey through public venues." This makes a good companion to the earlier story linking to Mad Hatter screenshots.

Comments

Still using an old business model?

[jubalj]

While it is good to see Sun embracing linux, isnt it still trying to run things using, what seems like a closed source model?

I mean whats with the crippled liveCD? is even the Live CD going to be available for free public download?

This makes me wonder about how much of the CD is actually GPL? All of the additional bits that sun has added probably arent opensource. How long before we see unofficial ISOs of the GPL'd portion?

Re:It's still GNOME.

[turgid]

Off topic - if Apple were to port OSX to X86 commodity hardware, I'm sure that we'd have a lot of businesses jumping on board - especially in the light of the "Homogenous Windows Environments Are Bad" article. It just makes good sense.

The G5 is selling like hot cakes. They can't make enough of them. Porting to x86 wouldn't make the blind bit of difference. 32-bit is going the way of the dodo. The G5 is 64-bit, and IBM has an amazing roadmap going forward. People are going Apple in their droves. Most people want a nice, shiny, easy-to-use, integrated and fast system. That's what Apple is selling. I don't work for Apple :-(