Java5 and FreeBSD

Dick Davies rasputnik at hellooperator.net
Fri Oct 1 23:35:46 PDT 2004


* Adam Smith <adam at internode.com.au> [1005 02:05]:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 01:46:51AM +0100, Dick Davies said:
> > * De Savant <desavant at mac.com> [1038 01:38]:
> > > I was looking around with this latest announcement of Sun's Java2 1.5, 
> > > since I was considering using FreeBSD on our server (amd64) instead of 
> > > Linux. I made my way to Sun's java page, and then to the newest Java2 
> > > Enterprise Edition 1.4 release. Yet no FreeBSD Java?
> > 
> > Sun have never released any VM for FreeBSD. The linux one will probably work
> > out of the box under the Linuxulator.
> 
> Don't they suck? :)

Well of course they do - they're Java VMs.
But they're no slower than a native one, and have the advantage of *existing* :)

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