On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 09:47 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 02:13, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > What do you nean by 'tolerate' Java? What are the disadvantages of > > installing Java? > > It's big, it's slow, True. Always improving and computers are getting faster and faster... > it has it's own concept of human interface instead > of inheriting that from the windowing toolkit; Consequence of 'write once, run anywhere' as different platforms use their own windowing mechanisms a single java based solution was/is a better fit for java's goals than the horror of AWT. Also, there is work being done to remedy the windowing toolkit problem, at least for gnome : http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view > it isn't part of the > base distribution so you have to track updates separately. It will be for FC4 :) so you wont have to. And it's FOSS java. > And for the > paranoid set - it's controlled by a company with its own agenda. Sun's Java is not really controlled by _one_ company [the name is, but not the code base]. Research the JCP. -- Craig Thomas <cjtinhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
