hdesktop is a product intended to be a desktop and related standalone product forms , initially for the Solaris familiar professional who would love to take a solaris desktop home. But gradually the product is to be shaped as a secure desktop with "no-settings-to-do" secure environment, with specialized hardware, a GUI that requires that has a completely non-technical interface and so on.
A brief description of this project is at www.isolatednetworks.com/hdesktop.htm The tasks outlined in the page may appear very basic, but that it the idea: Attention to the basics from the Technically Advanced Professionals.
The idea is to scale down a sun server into that of a desktop, to a level of usage ease, yet secure enough for someone whose idea of virus and worm protection is an anti-bacterial casing. This implies that the Desktop interace needs to be well organized, easy, trendy and with interfaces and applications designed for a very very average user.
Project Phase relevant to java.net:
Software bundling: Though Solaris offers the options of a CDE and Java Desktop, the focus for this computer is on Java Desktop. Here the task is to "minimise" componets, improve desktop features build in user interfaces fro security management to a level of ease for someone allergic to command prompt and technical terms.
Muthusamy Sivasubramanian, Isolated Networks, India.
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https://www.isolatednetworks.com/hdesktop.htm