![]() The final version of JDS has a different Launch icon than the betas had, a different background image and the UI is a bit more polished. JDS comes with a mix of Gnome packages, some are 2.2.1, some are 2.2.2, others are even 2.4.0 (gnome-panel). Overall, the default JDS installation takes about 2.5 GB without the dev tools (which are not installed by default).Īfter it gets installed, JDS will boot in full graphical mode and load Gnome. I hope the Ximian designers at Novell give it a complete redesign soon. It is powerful, but it does not come without its share of extra carefulness the user should have as the UI is not well designed and some things are not obvious in their outcome. Yast2 on the other hand is not what I would call a “modern” installer. it has more options than Lycoris’ or Lindows’ installers) without alienating the new user. Anaconda retains its power and advanced options (e.g. ![]() The best graphical installer on Linux today is Red Hat’s Anaconda (with only a couple minor UI annoyances) and Sun/SuSE should learn a few things from it. It is very involved (I had to go through 4-5 pref panels to configure monitor and gfx card to my liking), very time consuming (staged installations, going through unnecessary screens sometimes), it is ugly and, under some conditions as above, buggy. Overall I found the installation cumbersome. It drags the installation time from about 45 minutes to over an hour+. On my second installation on the AthlonXP the same two files were again stalled for a very long period of time (this time I chose to not disturb scrollkeeper), so this is a totally reproducible problem. I had to twice manually kill scrollkeeper to get on with the rest of the installation (thankfully, both RPMs were installed successfully as I checked later). Changing a screen and running “top” would reveal that scrollkeeper-up was consuming 100% CPU time and it was the culprit of the stall. After I managed to boot JDS with LILO and entered the second stage of the installation the evolution-1.4.5 and gnome-user-docs RPMs will stall on 95% forever. Sun told me that this seemed like a very specific case, and it seems that it was, as I later installed JDS on my AthlonXP PC and chose the same boot manager and partition setup and indeed worked flawlessly this time.Ģ. I did check the /boot/grub files on JDS, everything was in order, it’s just that Grub can’t read that menu.lst file when it is not installed on MBR. I had to reboot, go to my Mandrake 9.1 installation, mount the ReiserFS JDS hdd3 partition, create a custom LILO file and then chroot to hdd3 and use LILO as my boot manager instead of grub. Upon rebooting to go to the second part of the JDS installation, Grub will load itself and then it will give me the grub command line and it would NOT load JDS to continue with the second part of the installation. I told the boot manager to get installed on /dev/hdd3 as I don’t want my existing bootmanager to get nuked. I installed it on /dev/hdd3 as / (a single partition for / and /boot) and used a 512 MB /swap on /dev/hdd2. ![]() ![]() Installation went fine, except for two problems:ġ. The installation will be familiar to SuSE users, as it is based on Yast2 (JDS is based on SuSE Linux). The Build 12C comes in 6 CDs: 3 binary, 2 source and 1 documentation. Here is our review and some screeenshots. OSNews got their hands on the golden master of Java Desktop System (JDS) from Sun Microsystems and we gave it a spin.
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