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Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) is a Sun Microsystems operating system, for the low-cost corporate desktop computer market.JDS aims to provide a system familiar to the average computer user with a full suite of office productivity software such as email, calendaring, office suite, web browser and instant messaging.
The name reflects Sun's intention to promote this as a venue for corporate users to deploy software written for the Java platform; it is actually built on top of Unix and currently uses a SuSE-based Linux distribution. A Solaris-based edition is due by mid-2004, and in the future it will also be available for Sun's SunRay thin-client system.
The Java Desktop System uses mainly free software and includes:
- Java 1.4.2
- GNOME 2.2 (using the Blueprint theme)
- StarOffice 7.0
- Mozilla 1.4
- Evolution 1.4
- MP3MP3 (or, more precisely, MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3 is an audio compression algorithm capable of greatly reducing the amount of data required to reproduce audio, while sounding like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to the listener. and CD player
- Java Media Player (uses the Java Media Framework)
- GAIM multi-service instant messaging
- RealPlayerRealPlayer is a media player, created by RealNetworks, that plays a number of multimedia formats including multiple generations of RealAudio and RealVideo codecs as well as MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, etc. The first version of RealPlayer was introduced in Apr
1 See also
- Project Looking GlassIn computing, Project Looking Glass is a free software project under the GPL to create an innovative 3D desktop environment for Linux and Solaris. It is sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Programmed in the Java language using the Java 3D system to remain plat
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