On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 12:55 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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. We have a lot of java code floating around that uses extensively Sun java GUI. Does GCJ have a rich set of GUI widgets, etc...? > > > 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. >