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OSNews: First Look At Sun’s Java Desktop System

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“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. 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.

“I was kind of disappointed to see it was only a live-CD, since
I am not really fond of them. Live-CDs never seem to function
properly on my system, or they do not function at all. But, I
inserted the disc into my primary CD-device, and threw all my
prejudice in the garbage bin…”

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