[plug] Looking for a JDK for Linux (will the freeBSD version work?)

[John Summerfield]

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Colin 't Hart wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> No, the FreeBSD won't work... well, it may, but not as good as the Linux
> native version. Available at
> 
> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
> 
> 
> This is the home of everything Java for Linux.
> Also don't forget to check www.javasoft.com regularly for
> Java code and classes to run once you have Java support
> working under Linux.

and http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com
I have a java compiler an order of magnitude faster than Sun's and there
are several java addons there too (and the docs are better than sun's too).

O and there's a GUI debugger there too.

> 
> You should also be able to configure your system so that you
> can execute Java "binaries" from the command prompt just like
> a real Linux executable.
 
 Does require a kernel rebuild tho.

 It's actually a hack: it still involves running the java script to run the
 java runtime. It's sort-of neat, but can't be any more efficient than
 saying:
 java fred
 The kernel support requires (at least)
 fred.class
 which isn't shorter.


Cheers
John Summerfield
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