[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal :: JDS

Glynn Foster Glynn.Foster at Sun.COM
Tue Jul 18 15:26:59 PDT 2006



Calum Benson wrote:
> On 18 Jul 2006, at 18:51, Stephen Lau wrote:
> 
>> What about "CDS" == Community Desktop System ?
> 
> Now that JDS isn't a separate entity any more, do we really need to  
> call it anything other than "GNOME", or "[Open]Solaris GNOME"?
> 
> All the Linux distros ship GNOME desktops that include many of the  
> same non-GNOME applications that Solaris does (Firefox, Thunderbird,  
> OpenOffice), but they don't feel the need to think up a fancy name  
> for just the desktop bit[1].  It usually just shows up as "GNOME" on  
> the login screen Sessions menu.

+1 from my perspective.


Glynn



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