I don't know why you'd be scared to have your friends find out you do dev work on Windows. Windows has been a fairly good and stable operating system for a long time (Think Windows NT). I use XP 64-bit and it's great. I use linux too, but I don't find one to be better than the other.
As for linux disto, I've seen more than one complaint in the groups about Ubuntu not working right. I have a fedora 8 box and it works fine. What java version might be interesting... On my windows box, I have few different jvms installed (various versions of sun and bea). If I try to set any of them in my path, Eclipse will crash when starting up. Very odd problem, but I don't know if that's the issue for you. Another thing is you mention java-ee-sdk. I'm guessing that's in reference to the enterprise version, which you don't need for this. I doubt it would matter much though. For installation steps, I'll go with what I did on my linux box. It was a fresh install of Fedora 8. I selected to install Eclipse (although you should be able to use yum to install it afterwards). As I recall, I downloaded a j2se sdk and ran the installer. I think I had to manually set the path, but I don't recall. I know I set the path to the android sdk. After that, I just started eclipse and set the android sdk path there and I was done. On Mar 30, 9:15 am, dhmorgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've now tried several distributions of linux and continue to fail to > get java/eclipse/android stack working. May the gods spare me from > having my friends find out I'm developing on a Windows machine. > > My preferred linux is Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy); I've tried uninstalling > Java and installing from Sun's java-ee-sdk but it keeps hanging. I've > searched and read and tried a workaround or two. > > Bottom line: what versions of Java and Eclipse are people using on > what distribution, with what installation procedures? > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
