Indonesia Adopts Java Desktop System on Linux

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 16, 2005 @01:47AM from the it's-nice-when-a-country-and-an-os-can-get-together dept.

UltimaGuy wrote to mention a DesktopLinux.com article discussing Indonesia's adoption of a Java Desktop System on Linux as a national OS. From the article: "This desktop software will be a major component of the new Indonesia Goes Open Source (IGOS) program that aims to help eliminate the "digital divide in the world's largest archipelago," the ministry and Sun Microsystems said in a joint announcement. The ministry said it will develop its own IGOS-branded software stack using JDS on Linux as the base platform. The agreement with Sun -- for an unspecified number of years -- has the goal of installing copies of the open source-based desktop across Indonesia, beginning with its government-affiliated offices, the ministry said."

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All we need is .... Harmony :) by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-16 01:55 · Score: 3, Interesting

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/harmony.html

For those who does not know it is Apache incubation for creating a complete Opensources implementation of the Java Standard Edition platform.

So let's hope this will boost FSF in improving resources to GNU's Classpath as well ;-)

And maybe one day RMS will stop Java bashing ... ok, well this one I doubt :x