From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 28 9:29:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from death.arcdiv.com (death.arcdiv.com [64.94.4.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E972837B403 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:29:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@ticktockman.com) Received: from ticktockman.com (c207-202-216-52.sea1.cablespeed.com [207.202.216.52]) by death.arcdiv.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f7SGT2o111827; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:29:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B8BC6EE.91E9A239@ticktockman.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:29:34 -0700 From: kevin godfrey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd newbies Subject: Re: Distribution Question (Was: Would like comments...) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Why is Java support on the BSDs so behind. I'm just curious as to why I > > have to load up a Linux package to use some of the newer features within > > the language. If this were more up to date, I would not have to dual > > boot my machine! > > Because nobody has determined it to be important enough to make it > native. You can use all the Linux programs you need under > "emulation," BTW... so why fix something that isn't directly related to > FreeBSD being a SERVER OS? > > Rick Well, how about because there are many java application servers out there that would probably benefit from running on a BSD platform... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message