Comments on: Maintaining Sun Java Desktop System (R2) http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/maintaining-sun-java-desktop-system-r2/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/maintaining-sun-java-desktop-system-r2/#comment-2562 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:33:22 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/maintaining-sun-java-desktop-system-r2/#comment-2562

Heh – Install Solaris 10 seems to be the generall attitude towards this isssue on the internet. Either that or Install Real Linux Distro.

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I dumped JDS back when version 2 came out. I got tired of ripping out my hair trying to get stuff to install. My biggest trick was to install Solaris 10 instead. My end users’ desktops looked the same since JDS is really just Sun’s twist of Gnome. Since I have been a Solaris admin for almost ten years, is was cake for me to maintain. Sure, I have issues getting some software to install on Solaris, but for the desktop users, I was able to provide everything they needed. I had StarOffice for the M$ Office replacement, Goggles for DVD (even with the DeCSS junk), mplayer with the Quicktime codecs for video, XMMS for audio, and rdesktop for that occasional need for Internet Exploiter. All tried and tested on my very own Solaris workstation! :-D

I am such a geek . . .

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