[ale] Sun Java Desktop

[Jeff Hubbs]

How does the Java bit fit in, then, if it's just a cut-down SuSE?

- Jeff

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 13:15, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone gotten any firsthand experience with this Java Desktop from
> > Sun?  I'd be interested in your impressions of what it's for, what good it
> > is, and where it fits into the grand scheme of things.
> 
> I've installed it and played with it a bit. It's essentially just a desktop
> SuSE. They've tweaked the look a bit to be more like XP, slimmed it down a
> bit (picked one hopefully best app, rather than shipping six web browsers,
> four email clients, etc.), added Star Office instead of Open Office, bundled
> some better fonts, and that's about it.
> 
> later,
> chris
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