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[NoOp]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>> John Dangler wrote:
>>>> A development environment consisting of Eclipse, Ruby/Rails, Sun Java
>>>> JRE (I'll need SE and Beans for school), mySQL, and Apache/Lighttpd
>>>> (never could get lighttpd to run a rails app).
>>> You don't need Sun Java.  Install java-gcj-compat-dev , which uses GNU
>>> Classpath, GNU Compiler for Java, and I think some eclipse code too.
>> 
>> I'm curious... 1) just how does java-gcj-compat-dev replace Sun Java
>> JRE, 
> 
> Using GNU Classpath and GNU Compiler for Java. :)  It should be fully
> compatible for most purposes.  I'm in a Java class right now, and
> haven't had any significant problems (just be careful to use -1.5 when
> calling javac).  Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Classpath
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ for some general info.
> 
> 2) how secure is java-gcj-compat-dev given the recent security
>> issues with Sun Java[1]?
>>
>> [1]http://secunia.com/search/?search=java
> 
> I'd imagine the security is about the same, but I don't know for sure.
> 

Thanks for the info & links! I've a test machine that I'll try using
only this to see if it also works for Firefox, Seamonkey, OpenOffice &
other apps.