Glenn Holmer wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 16:46, Jake Pumphrey wrote:
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.
I'm very pro-Java too, but this doesn't seem to have nearly as much to do with Java as it does with Linux. Reminds me of M$ calling everything *.Net whether it has anything to do with it or not.
Sun for obvious reasons have always touched Linux with the tips of two fingers and a clothes peg across the nose, so they had to use the name Java for a desktop that is a pretty standard Linux distro. I think their end game is to try to devise a version of Solaris with all the good stuff from Linux and see if it will fly with customers and if successful will propagate Solaris in place of Linux as better, more robust, secure and the full gamut of buzzwords that Corporations like to see. Regards Sid. --- Sid Boyce .... Linux Only Shop.