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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.jaguNET.com!news From: Paul Chakravarti <paulc@jagunet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.lang.java Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 02:40:32 -0400 Organization: jaguNET Access Services Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3181C160.41C67EA6@jagunet.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960425175204.19691C-100000@lint.cisco.com> <4lpu01$mul@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <4lpvjm$f0o@gorgias.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dlup-a29.jagunet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18123 comp.os.linux.misc:99867 comp.unix.bsd.misc:842 comp.lang.java:41096 steve farrell wrote: > > 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. There is a native port of JDK1.0 for FreeBSD - see http://toody.sicc.co.kr/~sjwhang/java/fbsdjdk1.htm -- Paul Chakravarti paulc@jagunet.com