El sáb, 05-09-2009 a las 19:40 +0530, R.Siddharth escribió: > Hi everyone ,
Hello, Siddharth. > I am planning to make a switch from ubuntu Jaunty to gNewSense 2.2 . > There are few things that I want to know before I erase my existing > OS(s) , Does gNewSense allow Tomboy to be used ? . Though Tomboy is > under the Gnome project , I have my doubts since it is written in C# and > uses Novell's Mono Rune time Environment which of late got into some > trouble . You can read the discussion about mono and Tomboy future in gNewSense[1]. > I am also learning Java and I use Netbeans IDE and open-jdk > for writing programs , is Netbeans and open-jdk accepted in the > gNewSense community , If no , I would like to be made aware of a > alternative for the IDE and the jdk (java). > > Thanks for your time and help . Those tools are free software, NetBeans is in the repositories and the OpenJDK is included by default in gNewSense. I used them when I was learning Java too but I don't like that Java is still surounded by other popular technologies that are not free and that Sun will keep distributing a commercial version of the JDK which may contain not free components. When I heard about Java platform going free I thought that all people (Sun, community developers and users) were going to use the same free and powerful tools; but it is not like that, and I don't like it. Other things that I found very frustrating, specially when working with GUIs: * NetBeans running very slowly. * OpenJDK Java Web Start doesn't work. * Fonts in GUIs look bad (not for all programs). * Components with abnormal spaces in them (not for all programs). I started to program with Python and use PyGTK for GUIs and I feel very comfortable with them. Plus, the things I was doing with Java I can do with Python in less time. 1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2009-07/msg00011.html _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
