[geeks] Sun JDS screenshots

[Francois Dion]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:29:34 +1100, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 03:46:31AM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > > I'd forgotten they've finally put out JDS on Solaris.
> >
> > JDS on Solaris or SPARC? If the latter, that would be interesting...
> 
> Both.
> 
> JDS is a desktop, the underlying OS is "unimportant".
> 
> JDS on Linux x86 (SuSE) - out today
> JDS on Solaris SPARC - in Solaris 10
> JDS on Solaris x86 - in Solaris 10
> JDS on Solaris AMD 64 bit - in Solaris 10

Or, out today, as an add-on to solaris 9 x86:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem/get/index.html
That's JDS2, but having Sol 10 x86 B69 (which includes JDS3) and Sol
10 x86 with a manually installed JDS2 (it requires some work to get it
to work under B63 - better off run it on sol9 or use sol 10 b69). I
cant see much difference (except that B69 doesn't include StarOffice
and JDS2 does). Both are based on Gnome 2.6.

You need good horsepower for this. I'm running B69 w/JDS3 on a Sun
Blade 150 and it's borderline (even with an add-on XVR-100 instead of
the onboard PGX64).  XFCE is a better choice (particularly if you are
used to CDE).

Francois