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

["Schneider, Michael" <scmikes@xxxxxxx>]

I forgot one other benifit of opensuse, if you are into virtualization, Xen is fully supported.

 

1) yast will create xen system images for you

2) yast will control your xen VM's

3) the installer will set up xen for you

 

have fun, and happy coding,

Mike

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From: Schneider, Michael [mailto:scmikes@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thu 9/20/2007 10:35 AM
To: java user; users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cinjug-users] Java Developer friendly *nix distro

This is a personal question. It depends on your skill set.

 

I am not a system admin, so that throws out debian for me.  Ubuntu is very nice, and is improving repidly.  It is based on debian, but has a more frequent release cycle, and a goal of simplicity.   Someday,  I will likely be a Ubuntu user. The Ubuntu installer is just not quite there yet, expecially if you use LVM's for disk.

 

I use opensuse  http://www.opensuse.org.  I has a mature installer (yast) that is very easy for a non-sysadmin user. Yast allows you to perform sysadmin tasks (similar to windows control panel).  The current  opensuse release is 10.2, and 10.3 will be out in mid October. 

 

Suse has the largest collection of prebuilt packages that can be installed on demand.  I just click on "install all" at startup.  This give me:

 

• major editors
• java, python, ruby, perl, erlang,....
• svn, cvs, (I think 10.3 with have bzr, my favorite source contol system)
• apache, tomcat 5.5
• many, many other

I expect that you will receive many different answers to your post.  They will likely have 2 traits:

• They will all provide different solutions
• The solution will be correct for their solution space context.

I chose Suse for the reasons given above, let us know what you end up with.

 

happy coding,

Mike

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From: java user [mailto:java-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thu 9/20/2007 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