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

["Baxter, Frank \(LNG-CON\)" <frank.baxter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Everybody has a different opinion on Linux distributions, but I prefer a Debian based system, Ubuntu in particular for desktop work.  It contains most of what you mentioned in their source repository already. 

 

Licensing isn't an issue for Java, you can download the distributions directly from the Sun site just like the Windows versions.

 

Frank

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From: java user [mailto:java-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:49 AM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cinjug-users] Java Developer friendly *nix distro

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