Report: Java Desktop System (for Linux) roam free
Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:06 PM GMT

On edit....correction of title

Sun lets JDS on Linux roam free Java Desktop System on top of your favourite distro

By Fernando Cassia: Thursday 27 October 2005, 14:00

SUN MICROSYSTEMS has assured the future of its desktop Linux offering (Java Desktop System, or JDS) by doing something some of us only hoped. It is opening the "Java Desktop System" to other linux distros, -as a software layer. The company's software VP, John Loiacono told eWeek the company wants Java Desktop System to run "on multiple Linux distributions". This move has the potential of putting Java Desktop System as the preferred work environment for more Linux users than it was previously possible with the "custom distro" approach.

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1 comment for Report: Java Desktop System (for Linux) roam free
Anonymous
Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:24 PM GMT

Nice, if it wasn't so yugly