Re: which linux/chip?

1999-01-12 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, David Grimes wrote: > In response to the question about mesa and magician: > Yes, Magician comes with a precompiled Mesa library in both > static and dynamic forms. You can also use other versions > of Mesa such as the 3d-fx accelerated but I have not tried > and have n

Re: which linux/chip?

1999-01-12 Thread David Grimes
In response to the question about mesa and magician: Yes, Magician comes with a precompiled Mesa library in both static and dynamic forms. You can also use other versions of Mesa such as the 3d-fx accelerated but I have not tried and have no ideas about it's performance or viability. -Da

Re: which linux/chip

1999-01-12 Thread David Thompson
Thank you Kevin, for the direct, well put, inside inforamation. The remaining hitch for me (and others that I know) is the question of java 3d on these different platforms. Will blackdown be working on the java 3d port as well? And is there any reason to believe that java 3d will be working wi

Re: which linux/chip?

1999-01-12 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, David Grimes wrote: > Hello, if you are interested in doing awesome > OpenGL in Java and don't wan't to wait for sun to get their ?$%# > together and write Java 3d for anything except windows > and sparc solaris I'd highly recommend you check out Magician. > Magician is

Re: which linux/chip?

1999-01-11 Thread David Grimes
Hello, if you are interested in doing awesome OpenGL in Java and don't wan't to wait for sun to get their ?$%# together and write Java 3d for anything except windows and sparc solaris I'd highly recommend you check out Magician. Magician is a very thin Java layer into native OpenGL, and i

Re: which linux/chip?

1999-01-11 Thread Kirk Hutchinson
I don't know if the version of Linux makes a difference, but there is DEFINITELY more time spent on the x86 version of Java than any other platform. Believe me, the reason Java runs the fastest on NT is NOT because of the OS... kirk David Thompson wrote: > > Hello, > > I am struggling with a

Re: which linux/chip?

1999-01-11 Thread Patrick
I am a full time java developer. The firm I work for originally ran on NT/95 and we had serious crash problems. Plus the machine had to be reboot to allow servlets to work, etc. I took my AMDK6-2 233mhz and put redhat on it with the blackdown jdk, and it is absolutly awesome. I recommend to stick

which linux/chip?

1999-01-11 Thread David Thompson
Hello, I am struggling with a decision that some have probably been through, or are currently experiencing: If one wishes to run Linux and write Java code (including, the potential of the java 3d api), should one get and x86 and run RedHatx (and or another x86 flavor), or should one go with a P