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Sun Java Desktop System Release 2

Posted by michael on from the java-desktop-still-a-stupid-name dept.

Jahf writes "Sun is putting out Java Desktop System Release 2. Some overview information is in this article while more technical information about the new management solutions are in this one. Quickly: the desktop environment is essentially the same, though Sun has added support for GIMLET (allows one to change the current input language on a per-window basis), officially supported Japanese and Korean translations, and is including a Java-based online update client. The bigger changes are management items that are normally hidden from the end-user but valuable to the Admin. Configuration Manager allows admins to setup client preferences for remote desktops and 'protect' those settings to create policies. Sun Control Station (the last remaining Sun product from the Cobalt acquisition) can work as a network imaging server, can monitor remote desktops, and can work as a patch server (both by pushing patches out to many desktops and by serving as an online update server for clients who need to pull additional packages)."

3 of 196 comments (clear)

  1. I hate sun by SLASHAttitude · · Score: -1, Troll

    and I got the FP

  2. Re:Where's the innovation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's not Linux. It uses Linux. The same way it uses Gnome. And the same way your precious OS X uses BSD.

    But then, you're just a halfwit troll...

  3. Not impressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When will the linux desktops going to "lead" in innovation instead of lagging, continually trying to replicated some outdated version of windows?

    In fact all linux desktop sucks, are a featureless poor buggy replicas of the windows desktop.

    Gnome sucks
    KDE sucks
    This Sun Java desktop sucks
    Ximian sucks
    Lindows sucks
    Enlightenment sucks
    XFree86 sucks
    And I'm sure IBM blue desktop will suck

    Although E and WindowMaker is about the only innovative option out there and its starving for features and packed with bugs.

    One of these distros need to get some real "PAID" developers for chirst sakes and unify the development core of these products.