John Gunning wrote:
>
> http://ximian.com/desktop/download.php3
>
> With support for
>
> Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, and 7.1
> SuSE 6.3, 6.4 and 7.0 on x86
> Mandrake 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2
> Debian GNU/Linux (Potato) on x86
> LinuxPPC 2000
> TurboLinux 6.0
> Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server 1.2
>
> Apparently support for x86 Woody is on the way... can anyone tell me why it
> is that SLUG users seem so predisposed to this distro?
Debian is good. What more can i say?
> I'm not trolling at all, the reason I ask this is that I'm currently running
> RH 7.0 (regretting the upgrade from 6.2) and contemplating 7.1, as I've
> heard better things about it (SMP, threads, performance, etc). Is it worth
> checking out Debian GNU as well?
This statement kinda makes me laugh. No offense or anything, but there
is
a world beyond RPMS.... If you do like binary packages then debian is
probably even more for you ;)
> My task is evaluating Linux as a Java Server Platform, main apps are Apache,
> Tomcat/Resin, MySQL/Oracle, Cloudscape and Java 1.3. Also what experiences
> have people had generally with Java under Linux ? Does anyone have any views
> on GCJ ?
We develop servlets at work exclusively on big expensive servers running
linux. We also develop on normal machines running linux as well, but the
big servers compile stuff oh so much faster ;)
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