I've been developing in Java (mostly) on Ubuntu for almost a year, and have
been very happy. It has the best software package management system (synaptic)
of any OS I've every used, commercial or no. SUN JDKs are already available
thru it, you just have to enable 3rd party multiverse stuff in synaptic. You
can use Ubuntu without knowing hardly any command line fu, if you like.
Installation is also incredibly easy. I've been using linux for desktop OS off
and on for almost 10 yrs and Ubuntu is definitely the closest to ready for
prime time. Other than some occasional X config and driver issues (which you
may not run into at all if you have relatively standard HW) it's there.
--Chris
----- Original Message ----
From: James Carman <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: java user <java-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: users@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:05:13 AM
Subject: Re: [cinjug-users] Java Developer friendly *nix distro
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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