[OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Antony Paul
Hi all,
   Which distro (free) is most friendly for Java development. I need
J2SE 1.4.2 to work on it plus Eclipse 3.x(Linux dont have a good text
editor in which I can run Ant builds). I also need a good GUI so that
others will be attracted to it.

rgds
Antony Paul

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RE: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Søren Neigaard
I would recommend Mandrake then, or Fedora Core

I run Eclipse on both, with great success.

/Søren 

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Subject: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

Hi all,
   Which distro (free) is most friendly for Java development. I need
J2SE 1.4.2 to work on it plus Eclipse 3.x(Linux dont have a good text
editor in which I can run Ant builds). I also need a good GUI so that
others will be attracted to it.

rgds
Antony Paul

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Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Trond G. Ziarkowski
Hi!
Linux dont have a good text editor in which I can run Ant builds
That's where you are wrong my friend. Try jEdit from www.jedit.org. It 
is made in Java and runs on any platform, and it has several plugins 
capable of running Ant builds. A great editor in my opinion.

Trond
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Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread wim
Trond G. Ziarkowski wrote:
Hi!
Linux dont have a good text editor in which I can run Ant builds
That's where you are wrong my friend. Try jEdit from www.jedit.org. It 
is made in Java and runs on any platform, and it has several plugins 
capable of running Ant builds. A great editor in my opinion.

Trond
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i agree, jedit = :-)
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Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Nat Gross
Antony Paul wrote:
Hi all,
  Which distro (free) is most friendly for Java development. I need
J2SE 1.4.2 to work on it plus Eclipse 3.x(Linux dont have a good text
editor in which I can run Ant builds). 

I use JEDIT for quick simple editing of files, and Eclipse for the real 
stuff. A great combination. I would not advise using JEDIT instead of 
Eclipse but I don't want to start a war now.
Although I am currently using Fedora Core 2, I am looking to upgrade, 
and the folks in various Linux/Unix newsgroups are pushing me towards 
the new Solaris 10, free from Sun. (My main Eclipse work though, for 
now, is still on a WinXP machine.)
fwiw,
-nat

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Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Wade Chandler
Nat Gross wrote:
Antony Paul wrote:
Hi all,
  Which distro (free) is most friendly for Java development. I need
J2SE 1.4.2 to work on it plus Eclipse 3.x(Linux dont have a good text
editor in which I can run Ant builds).
I use JEDIT for quick simple editing of files, and Eclipse for the real 
stuff. A great combination. I would not advise using JEDIT instead of 
Eclipse but I don't want to start a war now.
Although I am currently using Fedora Core 2, I am looking to upgrade, 
and the folks in various Linux/Unix newsgroups are pushing me towards 
the new Solaris 10, free from Sun. (My main Eclipse work though, for 
now, is still on a WinXP machine.)
fwiw,
-nat

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I have tried Solaris on intel over the past recent years, and I love 
Sun, but my gripe with Solaris on intel is lack of drivers.  Look at 
CentOS or White Box Linux (www.centos.org and www.whiteboxlinux.org 
respectfully) if you like Red Hat as they are free and use the Red Hat 
source SRPMs with only stripping out the RH branding, so they are 
Advanced and Enterprise RH for free using the same source code.  SuSE is 
also very good.  I am using 9.1 at the moment.  You can purchase SuSE9.2 
Professional for 90.00US and get like 7-8 cd's and a DVD with all kinds 
of nice applications.  I've been happy with all the ones I've mentioned. 
 I run Tomcat on all of them, I use Netbeans 4.0 without issue on all 
of them, and have been developing java on all of them for years.  SuSE 
has been using the 2.6 kernel since their 9.1 release.  I've been 
pleased with it.  I've got some friends who like the Debian based 
distros.  To install a VM on them download the non RPM version of the 
install.  That's about it really.

Wade
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Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Justin Crabtree
Wade Chandler wrote:
Nat Gross wrote:
Antony Paul wrote:
Hi all,
  Which distro (free) is most friendly for Java development. I need
J2SE 1.4.2 to work on it plus Eclipse 3.x(Linux dont have a good text
editor in which I can run Ant builds).

I use JEDIT for quick simple editing of files, and Eclipse for the 
real stuff. A great combination. I would not advise using JEDIT 
instead of Eclipse but I don't want to start a war now.
Although I am currently using Fedora Core 2, I am looking to upgrade, 
and the folks in various Linux/Unix newsgroups are pushing me towards 
the new Solaris 10, free from Sun. (My main Eclipse work though, for 
now, is still on a WinXP machine.)
fwiw,
-nat

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I have tried Solaris on intel over the past recent years, and I love 
Sun, but my gripe with Solaris on intel is lack of drivers.  Look at 
CentOS or White Box Linux (www.centos.org and www.whiteboxlinux.org 
respectfully) if you like Red Hat as they are free and use the Red Hat 
source SRPMs with only stripping out the RH branding, so they are 
Advanced and Enterprise RH for free using the same source code.  SuSE is 
also very good.  I am using 9.1 at the moment.  You can purchase SuSE9.2 
Professional for 90.00US and get like 7-8 cd's and a DVD with all kinds 
of nice applications.  I've been happy with all the ones I've mentioned. 
 I run Tomcat on all of them, I use Netbeans 4.0 without issue on all of 
them, and have been developing java on all of them for years.  SuSE has 
been using the 2.6 kernel since their 9.1 release.  I've been pleased 
with it.  I've got some friends who like the Debian based distros.  To 
install a VM on them download the non RPM version of the install.  
That's about it really.

Wade
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I would say that the most friendly distro will be the one that you are 
comfortable with.  If you are using mainstream tools such as Eclipse, 
the support on most distros will at least be adequate if not friendly. 
The best advice is to try a couple and see what works.

--
Justin Crabtree
Java Programmer
Ozarks Technical Community College
447-7533

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Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Andreas Vombach
... has somebody experience with gcj? On RHEL eclipse (but only 2.1.2) 
works with it and it looks faster than with Sun jdk. gcj could be also 
an option for tomcat, I'll try as soon I have time for it ...

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Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 16:13, Andreas Vombach wrote:
 .. has somebody experience with gcj? On RHEL eclipse (but only 2.1.2)
 works with it and it looks faster than with Sun jdk. gcj could be also
 an option for tomcat, I'll try as soon I have time for it ...
There was a note that the most recent version of SableVM runs Eclipse
and Tomcat.  Given that most of the problems were not in the JVM but
in the class library, that bodes well for gcj running both shortly.

David

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