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LinuxInsider: Open Source Alternative

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Sun Microsystems plans to create more awareness and usage of
open source with the rollout of its open source-based Java Desktop
System (JDS) to secondary schools and institutions of higher
education.

“The JDS, which was introduced late last year, consists of a
fully integrated client environment based on open source components
and industry standards, provides a complete desktop environment and
productivity tools which includes the GNOME desktop environment,
StarOffice Office Productivity Suite, Mozilla browser, Evolution
mail and calendar, Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE platform)
and a Linux operating system…”

Complete
Story

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