> There are so many configurations of Linux, that it is hard to find
> a version to compile against where users can reliably get applications
> to work.
I think it is not a major responsibility of a user to get an application
to work reliably on Linux. It is primary responsibility of the
applic
> The same problem is not present with MS operating systems because the
> releases remain for a long time (a couple of years). Users have to
> put up with the bugs for that long though.
Every MS service pack introduces new DLLs. Most recently
MS has taken the stance that the newest DLL
Jan-Henrik said:
> AFAIK he's thinking primarily of the different libc versions on Linux,
> and that Linux distributions comes in different configurations, i.e. a
> Linux dist. is not really as homogeneous as we like to think it is.
I think that's a very well put explanation. There are so many
> The inter-operability problems with Linux are just horrible. You
> have to be excruciatingly careful because all the different flavours
> of Linux are all slightly different.
>
Well, he's right that it is horrible, but not right about the reason. The
port is hard because of differences betwee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar) writes:
> JG: It's hard to tell when those problems will be resolved. The
> Linux community has got itself into a bit of a pickle. I think they
> could have avoided it, but it's now going to take time, and it'll be
> a painful thing for them. They're going
> From: "jools enticknap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Or perhaps it's just down to the fact that the JVM was originally coded
> on Solaris. Although Solaris and Linux are fairly common on a number of
> fronts, they differ on a great many too.
Didn't Sun rewrite or reorganize something recent
t of a pessimist, I do hope that I'm totally wrong ( when was
jdk1.2pre2 released )
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar)
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Gosling says he wants to support Java on Linux
>Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:50:21 -0400 (EDT)
>
>An in
An interview with Gosling is at
http://webserv.vnunet.com/www_user/plsql/pkg_vnu_search_mo.right_frame?p_story=89624
Suprising quote:
Zombiehead: James, what's your stance on Java in relation to open
source? It's one of the reasons Linux is successful. Do you see this
as a future possibi
