On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]> wrote: > Wait until April 20, and get Ubuntu 9.04 instead of the > current Ubuntu 8.10. You will like Ubuntu 9.04, the best > darn Linux desktop there is! > > Ubuntu install CDs are always for the desktop user, not > for the developer. If you need to do development work, > then Synaptic Package Manager is your friend - just download > build-essentials and all the other stuff that you need. > If you are doing Java, you have a choice of sun-java-6 > or open-jdk-6. I have not yet been able to figure out > the difference between the two. Oh and there is also gjc. > Why does the Linux community need so many jdks?
gcj - compiles Java to native (e.g. x86) code. If any Java bytecode needs to be dynamically run, it's fully interpreted which is slow. No runtime compilation to code. Not everything works here. sun-java-6 - identical to Sun's release Java 6 release for Linux, including non-free code. open-jdk-6 - sun-java-6's GPL release. Not everything made it to the GPL release, so not everything works right. (In my experience, just Swing GUI code). Since on Linux, I use Eclipse (doesn't use Swing) and command line stuff, this is what I use. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
