Registration For Linux Desktop Summit Now Open

Saqib Ali writes "Registration for Linux Desktop Summit is now open. Here is the press release and the list of sponsors Highlights will include RedHat's direction for Linux on Desktop, and Sun Java Desktop. Today Sun did a presentation on Sun Java Desktop, the presentation will be available @ Java Desktop System in Action: Secure, affordable and compatible. Revolutionary (View on Demand), or in PDF format."

Comments

Sun Java Desktop

[gazbo]

Is it just me, or does this strike anyone else as a bad idea? I'm a web designer and have used Java for popup menus and rollovers and the like, and although it's good for that stuff it can sometimes feel a bit slow - if you made a whole desktop out of it, it would barely creep along at all!

Also, depending on which browser you're using, some functions are different. So would the desktop break if you installed a different browser? Like it's fine if it runs IE, but lots of stuff I've written fails on Mozilla because their Java implementations doesn't seem to be as complete. So if I want to install Mozilla instead of IE, will some of the desktop functionality break?

Seems Sun are being a bit stupid to me - just jumping on the Java bandwagon.

Re:Sun Java Desktop

[kinnell]

The Java Desktop is basically a modified gnome distribution with good java integration. Other than that, the "java" part is just for branding.

Re:Sun Java Desktop

[osewa77]

Some responses:

Is it just me, or does this strike anyone else as a bad idea? I'm a web designer and have used Java for popup menus and rollovers and the like, and although it's good for that stuff it can sometimes feel a bit slow - if you made a whole desktop out of it, it would barely creep along at all!

THe Java runtime itself is no longer slow. (Proof: the Standard WIndowing Toolkit from Eclipse.org has a faster GUI than Java's Swing)

Also, depending on which browser you're using, some functions are different. So would the desktop break if you installed a different browser? Like it's fine if it runs IE, but lots of stuff I've written fails on Mozilla because their Java implementations doesn't seem to be as complete. So if I want to install Mozilla instead of IE, will some of the desktop functionality break?

First of all, you would not be using IE on Linux. Second, most modern browsers work in concert with Sun's standard JDK which for the most part is backwards compatible and you can even target your application for a particular version

Re:Sun Java Desktop

[Anonymous Coward]

Sun isn't jumping on the Java bandwagon. Sun created java; it is their technology.

Re:Sun Java Desktop

[SomeGuyTyping]

"I'm a web designer and have used Java for popup menus and rollovers and the like" You're talking about JavaScript, not Java, which is a completely different animal

no you didn't

[Anonymous Coward]

you used JavaScript for popup menus and rollovers ... they are completely and utterly unrelated except that they share the word Java in their name and both have a syntax derived from C.

Looking Glass

[Kevin Burtch]

Sun will probably be demo-ing Looking Glass, a very slick 3D/GL user-interface... a replacement for the "desktop" metaphor.

I can't wait to try it out... it's the first GUI I've seen that may be a suitable replacement for WindowMaker on my systems. (I don't like GUIs that eat up your desktop as well as memory and CPU)

Linux summit winging its way to North County

[stonebeat.org]

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