On Wednesday 03 December 2003 14:13, Pacheco Jason NPRI wrote:
Just thought all of you might like to know that the first review of Sun's new SuSE-based Java Desktop System is out for all to read: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5286
The article was well written, and I agree with most of the author's criticisms. However, I get the sense that there is an underlying motivation behind such harshness in that I do not believe the author was a SuSE user. For instance, he
She, I think ... Eugenia Loli-Queru ? But I stand to be corrected.
began to criticise YaST2 as an installation program and compared it with RedHat's Anaconda. When in fact, I believe YaST2 to be a perfectly acceptible installation/configuration package. Let me know what you think.
Yeah, really interesting. Another take on the story can be seen at: http://www.linuxworld.com/story/34036.htm Interesting that it's based on SUSE. They seem to be Gnome focused (sigh). Much as I'm a Java advocate, I think it'll be a version or 3 before it ammounts to anything in the big picture. Jake