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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Jeeze- how lame can you get! The Java Desktop System? I mean, it's still a little lame when Microsoft appends or prefixes .NET to everything in their new product line- but now Sun is doing it with Java? That is 100 times worse! I mean, this JDS Linux distro has just about as much to do with being driven by Java as my OS X machine. Yes, Java is installed, and I have a couple apps that use it, but it's hardly the centerpiece of my machine, and not at all important enough to be put in the FREAKING NAME of the FREAKING PRODUCT.
Hell, Sun doesn't even eat (much) of their own dogfood. Yet, they have the just enough retardation to call their Linux distro the "Java Desktop System." Sometimes It seems a bit goofy to see Microsoft calling a lot of products "MS Somethingorother.NET," but it still makes sense in way- Java is a language, .NET is a whole system, a "vision." I imagine there are more .NET-based apps shipped with Longhorn and perhaps MS Windoze Server 2k3 than there will be Java apps as a part of this "Java Desktop System." I mean, shiiit: Sun, if you want people to take your language seriously for desktop apps, take it seriously yourself. Learn about its failings for end-user by writing, testing and using apps written in Java... And then fix those flaws!
New from Apple! The "Perl Desktop Operating System!" (nee Mac OS X) It includes perl! It runs perl! AMAZING!