Re: [cinjug-users] Java Developer friendly *nix distro

["Eric Bardes" <ericbardes@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to add another "Amen!" to the Debian chorus.  I've been
running Debian for years.  Like Loren, I run it as a server rather
than a desktop.  The package management system is second to none.

Ironically, I think Debian is the least Java friendly distributions
because they're a bit dogmatic with regards to Free (as in speech)
versus Free (as in beer).  As such, the Sun JDK is not part of the
package management system.  All the free (as in speech) Java
alternatives they do include [kaffe, gij, ...] are inferior to the
real JDK from Sun.

The Sun JDK is easy enough to download and works out of the box.

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Cheers,
Eric Bardes