On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:50:48PM -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote: > > Sun's Java isn't free - period. Then live with the Java FC4 ships with > > in Core. > What about the java distro from IBM? Is that one open-source? Nope. No open source JVM currently exists. > Well, anyway I think a JVM is unnecessary overhead!! I would prefer > native code; so maybe I should stick with FC4's java distro. It's actually pretty amazingly efficient. The perceived slowness of Java comes from the historically horrible GUI libraries. > Now is FC4's java distro basically GCJ (from the GNU Compiler > Collection)? Yes. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
