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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.lang.java Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!uchinews!news From: spfarrel@gorgias.uchicago.edu (steve farrell) Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD X-Nntp-Posting-Host: gorgias.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <4lpvjm$f0o@gorgias.uchicago.edu> Lines: 26 Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: A Red Hat Commercial Linux Site References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960425175204.19691C-100000@lint.cisco.com> <4lpu01$mul@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 07:56:38 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18051 comp.os.linux.misc:99650 comp.unix.bsd.misc:834 comp.lang.java:40694 In article <4lpu01$mul@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Jon Skeet <jls20@cam.ac.uk> wrote: >In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.960425175204.19691C-100000@lint.cisco.com>, >Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> wrote: >> >>Can somebody point me to comparison of development tools available for >>Linux vs. FreeBSD for: >> >>1. C++ development >>2. Internet tools >>3. Java Development Kit well, for 1 & 2 they are on par. #3 linux has a bit of an advantage b/c there is a port of sun's JDK for linux (http://www.blackdown.org). however, with FreeBSD (& linux, incidentally), you can use netscape 2.0+ to compile java code (check out the port collection at http://www.freebsd.org). furthermore, kaffe, a JIT in alpha development, works on both platforms. (another sidenote, generally FreeBSD can run linux binaries, but i guess the JDK is "too ELF" for the FreeBSD emulator, so it doesn't happen... presumably it might at some later date, but by that time there will probably be more interesting alternatives.) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Farrell http://gorgias.uchicago.edu/~spfarrel Finger me at spfarrel@quads.uchicago.edu for my PGP public key block.