For a few hundred bucks, I'll set one up for you. ;) Seriously, I
agree with Frank Baxter. I'd set up something like Ubuntu or Fedora.
I've got one of both at home. I currently like Fedora more, but I'm
getting used to Ubuntu more and more. Either way you go, all you'll
have to do is install the O/S and then start yumming or apt-getting to
install what you need. For Fedora, I don't know if the JDK is
available in the standard yum repositories (you can download it from
Sun's site), but using apt-get on Ubuntu you can get the JDK pretty
easily. The trick is knowing what to ask for.
On 9/20/07, java user <java-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm looking for a linux/bsd distro that would be preloaded with tools for
> development (java in particular). Preferably it would come with a selection
> of source repositories (cvs/subversion), servers
> (tomcat/jboss/jetty/apache etc), databases, project automation tools
> (ant/cruise control), bug tracking tools and anything else a group of
> developers might need. I know that in the past, including the JDK and/or
> JRE on linux was an issue because of licensing issues and thus including any
> software dependant on them seemed to be an issue too. However I believe the
> situation has or is changing.
>
> So any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Tad
>
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