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Sun Negotiating With Wal-Mart Over Java Desktop

Posted by simoniker on from the sun-mart-wal-java dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an EWeek article, Sun is challenging Microsoft on a new front: the consumer market. Believing its Java Desktop System is "a more effective home and retail solution," the company is negotiating with major retailers Wal-Mart and Office Depot to include the Java desktop on consumer PCs and laptops."

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  1. Thank fucking God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am so sick of KDE and GNOME. KDE is an unbearable, inelegant mess, and GNOME just seems to have been stuck immoble in mud for forever. KDE just gets more and more like windows over time, without ever seeming to take on Windows' two or three good features; GNOME has the worst case of Mozilla-itis I've ever seen outside of Mozilla itself (It doesn't matter HOW fast your machine is. Somehow, every single mouseclick, every motion feels sluggish, like some slight delay kicks in after every attempted action. It makes OS X look like BeOS.)

    I want so badly for someone to take the Wonder Twins down.

    Now, I can only hope Sun understands concepts like "the users expect and demand things like a GUI monitor resolution switcher should be IN THE OS and easy to find, and no consumer OS should ever make the user be aware something called 'XF86config' exists.."

    Is the source at all available for Java Desktop? Is it at all customizable by directly talking to the java objects that comprise it?

  2. Re:e-Machines inferior? No... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...and settle for less, as it runs hardly any software, and end up spending even more $$$ on the Mac due to the hardware that comes standard on the "e" that is missing on the Mac.

    You'll be doing OK as long as you don't bother to turn the Mac on.