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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!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!jls20 From: jls20@cam.ac.uk (Jon Skeet) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.lang.java Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: 26 Apr 1996 07:29:05 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, UK Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4lpu01$mul@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960425175204.19691C-100000@lint.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: callisto.girton.cam.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18082 comp.os.linux.misc:99743 comp.unix.bsd.misc:835 comp.lang.java:40819 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 Although I can't remember the exact address, I know you can get a port of the JDK from somewhere. You can get the address from Sun's Java pages, click on External Ports (or something like that). Sorry this sounds a bit vague : it's not really as hard as it sounds. You need the latest versions of libc and various other things though; this may mean getting a new make as well. Jon, who did this (or got someone else to) yesterday