Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 03:13 UTC
Sun introduced recently the second version of Java Desktop System (JDS) for a flat fee per employee/per year. We tried it and here is what we found out about:
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Sun has a big name and it is using to undermine the good faith that other Linux distributors have created for Linux. It is a classic strategy. If enough people come to associate this piss-poor effort of a desktop with Linux, they can then offer to sell them a better version, which will of course run Solaris.
And some poor souls will fall for it.
I have nothing agaisnt Solaris. It's a terrific server OS. Technically, it is quite good.
I just do not do proprietary OSes that require proprietary hardware to run. I like my Linux just fine. If I need to backup to a big external drive in a hurry, I can just plug-in a large firewire drive and be done. I also have a fairly good assurance that I can install Linux just about on any hardware that I am likely to have around. Not so, with Solaris x86
But getting back on topic, the desktop looks like shit and according to Eugenia, it performs even worse. How is it that they could take a decent product and make it look like crap and perform even worse? How difficult is it to provide a reasonable update to Gnome 2.6 and the latest version of Mozilla and so forth, testing the crap out of the whole thing? Most bugs are fairly shallow and become readily apparent within 2 weeks of intensive testing.