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> }   >  In reality, FreeBSD can not be concurentable ws NT,   we have few big
> }   >problems:
> }   >     1. bad java support
> }   >        1. biss-awt won't work (on 2.2-stable)
> }   >        2. port of latest jdk from sun is absent.
> }
> }	Can't comment here since I don't much on this topic.
> 
> 
> A visit to javasoft's site turns up:
> 
> http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kwhite/javaport.html
> 
> Appears to be 1.1.2.

Really?  Last time I looked it was 1.1, but maybe it got updated.

> Seems to work, unfortunately I spend most of my time in Visual Cafe
> these days, so I can't say how solid it is.

It 'mostly' works, although it's not as solid as I'd like.  I can get
corruptions and all sorts of errors if I push it hard.  But, it's no
worse than VCafe', which is a pile of crap IMHO.



Nate