> Currently I have SUSE and Red Hat both released around the same, June 1998.
> sitting on my computer desk.
> I want to avoid any pain with JAVA 2.0, netscape, IDEs, JDKs .... so which
> is best supported when all the new JAVA goodies come out.
I don't know of any RedHat-specific problems.
SuSe has a very annoying problem. The default LD_LIBRARY_PATH is such that
the system's default libjpeg.so is used rather than the JDK's libjpeg.so
(which is a super-set of the default version). This causes the JDK to
throw a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError whenever you try to load a .jpg
file. (ie. getToolkit().getImage("picture.jpg") will always fail. Note
that .gif images are not affected by this.)
The work-around is to copy the libjpeg.so file which comes with the
JDK over the one in /usr/X11R6/lib. This aught not to break anything
since it is a super-set of the original.
- Carl
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Data Representations, Inc.
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