To whom it may concern or interest I opted for Debian for the same reason (okay, even more so) that I decided some time ago to try programming in java. (I'm not a professional programmer, it's for my own amusement and for an amateur(ish) website.) Guavac seems to work, but I'm writing things blind. Do I have to have Netscape on my limited partition to see what it looks like? dselect suggests a jvm but doesn't offer one. Up to now (on win95) I have on principle made sacrifices to use Sun/Netscape products that lagged far behind M$ compilers and browsers. Is there no end to this?
David