Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 16th Sep 2003 04:53 UTC
Sun Microsystems is introducing its Linux distribution, Sun Linux, a part of the Mad Hatter project, to the general public today. Sun Linux is targeting the Enterprise market and at a very low price. OSNews had a sneak peak at Sun Linux last Friday at Sun's offices and here is what we saw there.
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What are you on about?! People aren't talking about users customising workstations, they're talking about the appearance of the default desktop. You don't need to be any expert to give a subjective opinion on the appearance of a desktop.
As regards usuability, users with poor eyesight may want to change to a high-contrast colour scheme and raise the font-size. Gnome supports this, Suns Java Desktop System (JDS) probably will too - except that the Launch button, which looks like an image to me, will be totally unaffected by these changes. Even by website standards that's poor usability.
Also I would say that the XD2 layout is more attractive and easy to pick-up. The JDS looks like a typical geek box, all dark colours and applets any odd place. In my own fallible, subjective, flawed etc. opinion it compares poorly on aesthetic grounds with all the other desktops out there (from Redhat to Aqua to Windows XP)