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Java Desktop System Review
Reader writes "OSNews has the first in-depth review of Sun's Java Desktop System based on the final code. The article discusses the good (stability, Star Office 7, good Java integration) and the bad (no KDE, buggy RealTek driver, shaky Samba) and it includes a number of screenshots. It seems that Sun has put all its attention on Gnome and while this is good for cosistency across their desktop (some of their Java apps use the native GTK+ themeing), it also limits its users from an out-of-the-box KDE and its thousands of apps choice."
Sounds sort of fun, actually.
Usually I wind up spilling my java all over my desktop when I read a particularly inflamatory on Slashdot...
The desktop should have been written in a low level language, like VB. This interpreted language garbage is bad, because you still ahve to load th interpreter into memory, and it isn't buffer controlled against privilege escalations or unauthorized sudo activity.
Who cares if she can write or not?! She's a babe!
1) Take an otherwise good distro, break compatibility with the other desktop environments, integrate an interpreted programming language, and call it the Python Desktop System!
2) Get a highly-populated country (mega-points if it's communist) to have its government use your particular "distro" -- major press releases and fanfare must ensue.
3) Profit
Oh, and while you're at it, post the feature list for your other...um...proprietary *nix OS that's supposed to blow everyone away. Name it after a movie with Clooney --> Oceans11
the problem is that real player thinks a file with the extension .rpm is its territory.
What's real player?
Erik
shut the fuck off liberal bitch. i hate all you libearls and you java. turn over to the true software development, microsoft .net!!!
Sure she isn't a supermodel but she's probably better looking that most guys reading Slashdot.
I figured that several guys reading slashdot looked pretty similar to her, actually. :)
The Smurfs got so popular because they stuck the word "smurf" in their vocabulary as much as possible. As a result they made a smurferrific amount of money smurfing every kind of merchandise smurfable.
Sun has obviously Javaed the smurfs, and wants to make a Javalicious Javatop that will make them Javatastic sums of money.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
>"KDE and its thousands of apps choice."
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Why does this sound like something an *AMIGA* user might have said way back when.........
Several other language-specific distributions have been released in recent weeks, including the CPAN Perl Desktop, the Ansi C++ Suite, and the Pure C Distro.
C++ creator Bjorne Strausoup noted that many Linux apps are too "C-heavy" and binaries generated from C++ code would benefit from being executed in a sky-blue themed environment.
Meanwhile, Larry Wall of Perl fame pointed out that worker efficiency will be at an all-time high for users of Perl applications now that the turquoise-themed Perl distro will ensure applications point to the correct bin/ directory for perl upon installation.
The Pure C Distro dream has been thwarted by the widespread adoption of C precompilers among projects seeking to attain compatibility with the new neon pink distribution.
...since I got my Mac.
How much did you irish up that coffee?