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20061207 Thursday December 07, 2006
The Developer Desktop is Here!

There's a new JDS desktop in OpenSolaris. We've rev'ved it up to GNOME 2.16, but have also added some really cool features. Check it out and then download it from Build 53 on opensolaris.org.


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Dec 07 2006, 11:23:36 AM PST Permalink Comments [5]

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Hello Stephan, I haven't installed JDS personally. How ever as a Sun Employee you might be able to answer this. Has Sun ever considered a Solid desktop solution? some thing like OS X. As you know OS X is based on Free BSD but its the GUI and the applications that make it more attractive than JDS/Linux. Forget about Gnome/KDE etc.. for a minute. How about writing a slick GUI on top of solaris? Thats all Sun needs to do to get into the desktop arena with full force.

Posted by Sivakanth Mundru on December 07, 2006 at 02:35 PM PST #

what's wrong with kde and gnome? they require some porting but most of the work is already done and both are quite user friendly and can be integrated very neatly. check what ububtu has done with gnome for example, ubuntu is very confortable to work with

Posted by nacho on December 07, 2006 at 05:21 PM PST #

JDS is based on GNOME. @Sivakanth Mundru There are two such GUIs CDE and OpenWindows @nacho Nothing wrong. He asks for a Solaris specific alternative. I think a Java desktop over FVWM without Gnome bindings would be better. There are beautiful Java programs jEdit(editor), jFTP (ftp/nfs/smb), ImageJ (viewer), Jzip (zip) and many other goodies existing in Jdistro. I think Jdistro is an alternative Java desktop but needs some more work. It comes with hundreds of useful utilities and an integrated FS viewer. But it needs much work on perormance. And the SWING L&F rocks.

Posted by Vasileios Anagnostopoulos on December 08, 2006 at 12:32 AM PST #

We, Sun, don't want to get back into proprietary desktop development. We want to leverage all the great open source work being done out there. You are perfectly welcome to port other desktops to OpenSolaris. Just start a sub-desktop community at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/.

Posted by Stephen Harpster on December 12, 2006 at 09:41 AM PST #

I figured Sun's approach after I posted the question. Thanks for answering.

Posted by Sivakanth Mundru on December 13, 2006 at 01:25 PM PST #

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