From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 08:19:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DB537B401 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay8-f19.bay8.hotmail.com [64.4.27.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180F243F85 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:19:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evantd@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:19:26 -0700 Received: from 12.229.123.246 by by8fd.bay8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:19:25 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.229.123.246] X-Originating-Email: [evantd@hotmail.com] From: "Evan Dower" To: des@des.no, blueeskimo@gmx.net Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:19:25 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2003 15:19:26.0035 (UTC) FILETIME=[A321AA30:01C35064] cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does linux-sun-jdk_1.4.2 work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:19:30 -0000 I have certainly had some frustration with Java on FreeBSD, but for the most part it works for me. In fact, I wrote a pure Java program that only seems to work on FreeBSD. On Windows, it crashes inside Java's regex code, so there's one place where FreeBSD works better ;-) Evan Dower >From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) >To: Adam >CC: freebsd-current@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Does linux-sun-jdk_1.4.2 work? >Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:29:57 +0200 > >Adam writes: > > Perhaps you should try working with Java 1.4.x on FreeBSD before you > > assume something about me that's highly inaccurate. I think you'll find > > very quickly that it doesn't work nicely unless the process is running > > as root. > >I use it daily and have never had any trouble (except for the broken >Xalan in 1.4.1). > >DES >-- >Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus