From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 23:11:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B7B737B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 23:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7562 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2000 08:11:13 +0100 Received: from bb-62-5-7-17.bb.tninet.se (HELO web1.tninet.se) (62.5.7.17) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 27 Nov 2000 08:11:13 +0100 From: Mark Rowlands Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:07:48 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" To: Alexander Batzios , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3A30C524@MailAndNews.com> In-Reply-To: <3A30C524@MailAndNews.com> Subject: Re: JBuilder, Linux Compatibility MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00112708074803.01640@web1.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 27 November 2000 06:43, Alexander Batzios wrote: > Hi all. I've just had to go to Linsux, uhm, Linux due to some compatibility > issues. I've tried mandrake and redhat but it seems they are too unstable > to use. > > I'm thinking of going back to freebsd but there are certain issues that > concern me. > 1) I need to do some serious software development with JBuilder. I've only > seen JBuilder and Java for Linux. Is there a chance they'll run on FreeBSD? No idea but there is generic support for java. Port: jdk-1.1.8 Path: /usr/ports/java/jdk Info: Sun's Java Developers Kit Maint: nate@FreeBSD.org - maybe this guy can help you more > Do I have to use some sort of linux emulation? If yes, how fast and > reliable is it? Probably, reasonably,quite. > 2) How good is KDE 2 support in FreeBSD 2? /usr/ports/x11/kde2 Well I use it and it mostly works and I am mostly happy with it > 3) I am using a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. Is FreeBSD compatible with that? Greg Lehey has got one...so it probably works Hope that is of some use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message