On Friday 04 January 2008, Karl Larsen wrote: > Something happened in my immediate family yesterday and let me say > it is not like me to pick on people like I did. But I was not in sound > mind yesterday. Today I say please forgive me Dennis what I said was > stupid and not correct. I'm sorry you had family issues; I know how that is, as I have five children. But I endeavor to not do e-mail when the situation is that stressful. > The only thing accurate is that what I learned > about java I feel strong about. This again is that with all the java > provided in a Work Station load of F8, which I since learned is not very > much capability, I had no successful install of jedit. It is nice that > others have had success. I can't explain that. Well, F8 ships two different Java's by default: gcj (the pretty minimal one that doesn't work with jedit, as you found out) 1.5, and then IcedTea, which is kindof a Sun Java (read the Iced Tea pages to find out why I say that; suffice to say that IcedTea, built on the OpenJDK source code from Sun, is what Sun Java 1.7 is possibly going to look like; in other words, like many things in Fedora, IcedTea 1.7 is experimental) 1.7. As John Summerfield said, in another thread, if you want something stable in that regards, get CentOS 5 and install the very easily installed Sun Java on it. I have a CentOS 5 box here, and it is rock solid, and it's in production. I use Fedora for my own laptop, and my own desktop (so I can do some SecondLife stuff (yes, work stuff, but I can't be more specific due to NDA)), but that's all. Mission critical servers that I have are still running CentOS 4, not even 5. In short, jedit does not work with gcj 1.5, but does with IcedTea 1.7. -- Lamar Owen www.pari.edu
