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nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:33:12 JST nixCraft 🐧

Java Desktop System
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1. This screenshot shows Solaris 10 with Java Desktop System Release 3.
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- Erklärbär (erklaerbaer@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:38:11 JST Erklärbär
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  @nixCraft Reminds me of BeOS
  
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- nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:39:25 JST nixCraft 🐧
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  - Jennifer 🏳️‍⚧️
  @transcendentempress Noop. Dead. They are now using just GNOME
  
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- Jennifer 🏳️‍⚧️ (transcendentempress@peculiar.florist)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:39:35 JST Jennifer 🏳️‍⚧️
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  @nixCraft Is this one still maintained, or has been forked?
  
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- nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:46:22 JST nixCraft 🐧
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  Though called the "Java Desktop System," it's not actually written in Java. It uses GNOME and other free software, mostly coded in C and C++. With the end of the OpenSolaris project, Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 3 is now the last release of the project. It is a dead end. They now just a stock version of GNOME in Solaris 11.
  
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- canleaf08 ⌘ ✅ (canleaf@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 06:59:43 JST canleaf08 ⌘ ✅
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  @nixCraft German university, 2014. Solaris 10 is ran on boxy sun work stations. Professor guides us into Solaris. « You can choose between CDE, Java Desktop System and Windows 2003 Server in one shell, our course will be on CDE. » I graduated in 2016 and the entire laboratory was torn down, boxy sun workstations were replaced with thinclients with Suse Linux…
  
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- Emilio Pavia (emix@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 16:48:09 JST Emilio Pavia
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  @nixCraft who does remember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass
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  1. Project Looking Glass
    
    Project Looking Glass is a now inactive free software project under the GPL to create an innovative 3D desktop environment for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. It was sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Looking Glass is programmed in the Java language using the Java 3D system to remain platform independent. Despite the use of graphics acceleration features, the desktop explores the use of 3D windowing capabilities for both existing application programs and ones specifically designed for Looking Glass. There is a Live CD available from Project Looking Glass. The Looking Glass environment is also included on a Live DVD (FunWorks 2007 edition) from the Granular Linux project. History Looking Glass was first developed by Hideya Kawahara, a Sun programmer who wrote it in his spare time on a Linux laptop. After demonstrating an early version to Sun executives, he was assigned to it full-time with a dedicated team and open sourced the project. It was demonstrated by Jonathan Schwartz at LinuxWorld Expo 2003 in San Francisco. After the demonstration, Apple CEO Steve Jobs called Schwartz's office and told him that Apple would sue Sun...