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Indonesia Adopts Java Desktop System on Linux

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. MOD PARENT UP (this is no troll ...) by DoktorTomoe · · Score: 1, Troll

    Common, seriously ... OP has given a valuable link for this discussion. How is this trollish?

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  2. Taking bets on when it'll be reversed... by DogDude · · Score: 0, Troll

    As with all major Linux rollouts, it'll eventually be scrapped. Anybody care to suggest when it'll be formally announced that the project is a failure? Of course, this post will be modded as a "troll", but it's true. Every major "Linux rollout" article that I've seen here has been reversed anywhere from a few months to a year or two later. Of if they weren't scrapped entirely, then they were perhaps "re-evaluated" or "put on the back burner indefinitely". It'll be *real* news when some large company or government has implemented something like this, and stuck with it for at least a year.

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    1. Re:Taking bets on when it'll be reversed... by gustar · · Score: 0, Troll

      Wow, an entire post filled with broad, sweeping, generalizations and not a shred of proof provided to substantiate any of your claims. Sounds like a troll to me.

    2. Re:Taking bets on when it'll be reversed... by gustar · · Score: 0, Troll

      ***Go do it yourself. I'm pointing out the fact that it's a trend.***

      You're not pointing out a fact at all, just spewing your factually unsupported opinion. There is a world of difference between the two.

      ***I certainly don't need to prove it. If you're interested, go look it up yourself.***

      Which is really just another way of saying "I like to spew nonsense, but not be burdened with the work of ensuring what I'm saying is remotely based in reality"