Runs just fine on my Kubuntu KDE4. The only annoyance I have is the garbled text background for fast changing labels. (ie building the list of task during task scanning) And that's only when the desktop effects are switched on. And that's probably due to the lack of support of the Intel graphics card.
But I have to admit it starts faster on a lighter XP machine. Shame really. ;-) On Jan 13, 2:03 pm, mbien <[email protected]> wrote: > >My only reason for swapping back to Windows was > >because Netbeans was buggy - sometimes dialogs would display with > >nothing in it, other times it might be okay..... > > hi, > > this is not NB's fault it was a race condition bug in swing on the > hardware accelerated desktops compiz(-fusion) and beryl. If you try > again with 6u10 or OpenJDK it should work now (but I also recoment SUN > 6u10 since OpenJDK rendering performance is still noticeable slower) > > -michael > > On Jan 13, 1:38 pm, Rob Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For what it's worth, I found developing using Netbeans on Ubuntu was > > much quicker than when I was using Windows, alhough I must admit it > > was with Vista. My only reason for swapping back to Windows was > > because Netbeans was buggy - sometimes dialogs would display with > > nothing in it, other times it might be okay. It became too > > frustrating, so eventually I found some property that disabled / > > changed the UI features and it manifested itself different, but > > marginly more usable (it was also 6.5 beta). > > > I hate Vista, but reliability (oxymoron?) is key... at least it was > > more reliable than my Ubuntu experience. > > > At least I gave it a go, but I must confess to using a normal JRE (non- > > server) and it was most definitely quicker. I was however doing GWT > > coding, on Windows it could task 50 seconds to build and deploy, > > Ubuntu nearer 5 seconds. > > > I think a lot of it had to do with the Physical memory available in > > Ubuntu (1.5 gig out of 2 available, windows 1 gig available out of 2). > > > Anyway, that's my personal experience. > > > Rob. > > > On Jan 12, 11:09 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Also, while raw performance of a Java application may be higher on > > > Linux, it is many peoples experience that the opposite is the case > > > with perceived performance of anything with a UI. In short, on the > > > same machine, NetBeans FEELS faster when running on Windows than > > > running on Linux. I've heard this is due to the relatively old X > > > server design, don't really know, but it often comes up on nbusers > > > mailing list with people who just switched to Linux. And to be honest, > > > I would prefer perceived performance over synthetic-micro-benchmark-of- > > > the-day performance. > > > > /Casper > > > > On Jan 12, 11:41 pm, Marco Zühlke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I think the comparison that indicates that Ubuntu is much faster than > > > > Windows Vista results from the fact that they have compared the server > > > > Hotspot VM on Linux against the client one on Vista. > > > > On Windows, if not specified otherwise, always the client VM is > > > > chosen. On Linux in contrary this decisions depends on the machine. > > > > More than 2GB of RAM and more than 2 cores result in the server VM. > > > > > The article does not mention that one of both Hotspot VMs has been > > > > chosen deliberately, so the default selection took place. I think the > > > > numbers are in line with this. > > > > > Would be nice to have a REAL comparison between Windows, Mac and Linux > > > > using the same JDK and the same Hotspot version on the same hardware. > > > > > Marco --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
