Is it possible to run eclipse-SDK-3.2.1-linux-gtk on FreeBSD

Mikolaj Rydzewski freebsd at bsd.miki.eu.org
Tue Nov 28 01:30:43 PST 2006


Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:49:31AM +0100, Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote:
>   
>> I had to downgrade to eclipse 3.1 for jsp editor to work.
>> As a matter of fact, I'm considering switching back to linux (after 
>> three great years with freebsd). I'm focusing more and more on java at 
>> work, unfortunately java quality on freebsd is still very poor.
>>     
>
> Do you have any comparison matrix to prove that? It's not about holy war - I'm
> just wandering is it true, and Linux is better for Java development.
>   

It's not holy war. I like freebsd very much. Ports are great, system is 
great, everything is great except java...

Guys at work use latest ubuntu. Well... it just works ;-) You download 
jdk, eclipse bundle, untar and you can start coding. No more portupgrade 
at night...



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