![]() ![]() Gimp is installed, Java Media Player, and Totem, a movie player which I had not heard about before, Gnome PDF Viewer, and that is about it. There were not really any other interesting packages available. If OOo and Sun are unable to gain marketshare on Windows, how are they going to draw users away from Windows with the help of this office suite? Seems pretty unlikely to me. I think the number of /StarOffice users in Windows is relatively low, even though OOo is getting quite some attention (at least here in the Netherlands). Even though StarOffice is probably just as good as MS Office, it just lacks the ‘reputation’ MS Office has. This is supposed to be the ‘big thing’ that is going to draw users away from Microsoft. JDSb features Sun’s own StarOffice 7 office suite, which, of course, performs just wonderfully. So far nothing surprising although I must say I prefer Galeon over Mozilla, but that is just me. JDSb comes loaded with Mozilla 1.4 as standard browser, Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 for email, and Gaim 0.66 for instant messaging. Blueprint falls into oblivion compared to Mandrake’s Galaxy or Red Hat’s Bluecurve. This may sound like whining to you, but do not forget that this OS is aimed at desktop use, which means it also has to look good, besides having solid inner workings (which it obviously has, since it is a Linux distribution). I just hope that this is really a ‘blueprint’ and that they are going to improve on this matter before the final release in December this year. And it absolutely does not go with their primitive grey button set. It is a combination of dark purple with chrome-like widgets, almost unreadable. Especially their Blueprint theme, is, to say the least, hideous as though created by some 13-year old who had nothing else to do. I am not so impressed by the other visual elements of JDSb. Not special, not extraordinary, but good, almost ‘professional’. My expectations were still high.Īfter the configuration finished, it booted directly into JDSb, without the need for a reboot. I had to ‘reinstall’ JDSb for the second time. Not much of a problem, normally, but here we are talking about a live cd, which means it was not possible to edit my XF86Config file from the command line. I always have to switch to the standard Vesa driver. X recognizes the card just fine, but the Radeon general or Radeon specific drivers do not seem to work. I have had problems in every Linux distribution so far. It is the fact that X does not seem to like my ATI Radeon 9000. ![]() The other glitch in YaST has actually nothing to do with YaST, or Sun for that matter. I just rebooted my computer, and skipped printer setup. First, YaST hung during printer setup, and it’s not that I have a very rare printer or anything. The install/configuration was almost perfectly smooth, except for two things. YaST of course does not require any introduction it has already proven itself, in my opinion. The three files created hardly use any disk space (a little over 100 MB), and are easily deleted when done using the JDSb.Īfter creating these files on your hard disk, the YaST2 setup program is started (only instead of SuSE it says Sun). The Java Desktop System beta (JDSb) is not a ‘100% pure’ live CD, since it requires some files to be installed onto, in my case, Red Hat’s / partition (the JDSb is also capable of using a ‘Windows c: drive’, although I doubt that NTFS is supported). But, I inserted the disc into my primary CD-device, and threw all my prejudice in the garbage bin. Live-CDs never seem to function properly on my system, or they do not function at all. I was kind of disappointed to see it was only a live-CD, since I am not really fond of them. ![]() ![]() I was eager to try Sun’s attempt at creating a user-friendly Linux distribution, so I signed up for beta-testing, and this live-CD is the result. It arrived in the mail today: the Java Desktop System beta, in the form of a live CD, based on SuSE’s 8.2 live evaluation CD. ![]()
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