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Registration For Linux Desktop Summit Now Open 10

Posted by timothy from the remember-this-is-the-year-of-desktop-linux dept.
Saqib Ali writes "Registration for Linux Desktop Summit is now open. Here is the press release and the list of sponsors Highlights will include RedHat's direction for Linux on Desktop, and Sun Java Desktop. Today Sun did a presentation on Sun Java Desktop, the presentation will be available @ Java Desktop System in Action: Secure, affordable and compatible. Revolutionary (View on Demand), or in PDF format."
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  • Is it just me, or does this strike anyone else as a bad idea? I'm a web designer and have used Java for popup menus and rollovers and the like, and although it's good for that stuff it can sometimes feel a bit slow - if you made a whole desktop out of it, it would barely creep along at all!

    Also, depending on which browser you're using, some functions are different. So would the desktop break if you installed a different browser? Like it's fine if it runs IE, but lots of stuff I've written fails on Mozil

    • Re:Sun Java Desktop (Score:3, Informative)

      by kinnell ( 607819 )
      The Java Desktop is basically a modified gnome distribution with good java integration. Other than that, the "java" part is just for branding.
    • Some responses:

      Is it just me, or does this strike anyone else as a bad idea? I'm a web designer and have used Java for popup menus and rollovers and the like, and although it's good for that stuff it can sometimes feel a bit slow - if you made a whole desktop out of it, it would barely creep along at all!

      THe Java runtime itself is no longer slow. (Proof: the Standard WIndowing Toolkit from Eclipse.org has a faster GUI than Java's Swing)

      Also, depending on which browser you're using, some functions are di

    • "I'm a web designer and have used Java for popup menus and rollovers and the like" You're talking about JavaScript, not Java, which is a completely different animal

  • Sun will probably be demo-ing Looking Glass, a very slick 3D/GL user-interface... a replacement for the "desktop" metaphor.

    I can't wait to try it out... it's the first GUI I've seen that may be a suitable replacement for WindowMaker on my systems. (I don't like GUIs that eat up your desktop as well as memory and CPU)

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