[OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Antony Paul
Hi all, Which distro (free) is most friendly for Java development. I need J2SE 1.4.2 to work on it plus Eclipse 3.x(Linux dont have a good text editor in which I can run Ant builds). I also need a good GUI so that others will be attracted to it. rgds Antony Paul

RE: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Søren Neigaard
I would recommend Mandrake then, or Fedora Core I run Eclipse on both, with great success. /Søren -Original Message- From: Antony Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21. december 2004 10:10 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro Hi all, Which

Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Trond G. Ziarkowski
Hi! Linux dont have a good text editor in which I can run Ant builds That's where you are wrong my friend. Try jEdit from www.jedit.org. It is made in Java and runs on any platform, and it has several plugins capable of running Ant builds. A great editor in my opinion. Trond

Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread wim
Trond G. Ziarkowski wrote: Hi! Linux dont have a good text editor in which I can run Ant builds That's where you are wrong my friend. Try jEdit from www.jedit.org. It is made in Java and runs on any platform, and it has several plugins capable of running Ant builds. A great editor in my opinion.

Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Nat Gross
Antony Paul wrote: Hi all, Which distro (free) is most friendly for Java development. I need J2SE 1.4.2 to work on it plus Eclipse 3.x(Linux dont have a good text editor in which I can run Ant builds). I use JEDIT for quick simple editing of files, and Eclipse for the real stuff. A great

Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Wade Chandler
Nat Gross wrote: Antony Paul wrote: Hi all, Which distro (free) is most friendly for Java development. I need J2SE 1.4.2 to work on it plus Eclipse 3.x(Linux dont have a good text editor in which I can run Ant builds). I use JEDIT for quick simple editing of files, and Eclipse for the real

Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Justin Crabtree
Wade Chandler wrote: Nat Gross wrote: Antony Paul wrote: Hi all, Which distro (free) is most friendly for Java development. I need J2SE 1.4.2 to work on it plus Eclipse 3.x(Linux dont have a good text editor in which I can run Ant builds). I use JEDIT for quick simple editing of files, and

Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread Andreas Vombach
... has somebody experience with gcj? On RHEL eclipse (but only 2.1.2) works with it and it looks faster than with Sun jdk. gcj could be also an option for tomcat, I'll try as soon I have time for it ... - To unsubscribe,

Re: [OT] Java developer friendly Linux distro

2004-12-21 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 16:13, Andreas Vombach wrote: .. has somebody experience with gcj? On RHEL eclipse (but only 2.1.2) works with it and it looks faster than with Sun jdk. gcj could be also an option for tomcat, I'll try as soon I have time for it ... There was a note that the most