Rick Horowitz wrote: > I tried switching from JBuilder to NetBeans but found > NetBeans too slow - on a 400Mhz XEON with 512MB RAM.
I'm running a PIII 1Ghz with 512MB on Mandrake and NB 3.3 is fine for me....I've also had Eclipse running on it, but at the moment Eclipse is 'flakier' than NB by a long way. > I've switched back to JBuilder Personal. The JB 6.0 > release now installs easily on Redhat 7.2 (unlike the > 5.0 release, which I never got working). NetBeans has > more functionality than the free version of JB > (Personal - used to be Foundation), but the speed > difference is too much for me to ignore. I'm planning > to try NB again with their 3.4 version. > > > --- Keith Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I don't use a proper IDE, I'm waiting till it's >>clear they are very good & I >>can get a fast response time. So some of what I said >>was in ignorance, but also many people don't >>use IDE's yet. >>I don't have time to keep trying them out - last >>year I tried, they clearly needed a monster >>computer to run. >>Is netbeans the best IDE? >>Are you happy with it? >>What sized machine to run on? >>Keith. [snippity] -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting http://www.multitask.com.au/developers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
