Oh yeah, I forgot. You're talking desktop. Then, Ubuntu Desktop's
Synaptic is very nice. I run a server with no X environment, so I
have to use apt-get, but it's not that bad.
On 9/20/07, Chris Nelson <cnelson4eii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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