Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubunto Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1318726999 11793 84.45.235.129 (16 Oct 2011 01:03:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:03:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8843 On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:04:16 -0700, Roedy Green wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:20:40 +0100, Tom Anderson > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >>That Fedora is much better. > > In there anything you would want to tell programmers thinking of > developing Java on Fedora? > http://mindprod.com/jgloss/redhat.html is an entry a bit long in the > tooth. It just works. Out of the box the RedHat distros (RHEL - RedHat Enterprise Linux - and Fedora) use OpenJava, though you can easily switch to Oracle/Sun Java by simply downloading and installing it and changing the default search path ($PATH) so that compilers, etc are preferentially loaded from there rather than from OpenJava. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |