A suggestion: Why not set Sun's JDK as the default one?

John Hubbard ender8282 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 15 21:13:22 UTC 2008


Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:48 PM, yueyu lin <popeyelin at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> As far as I experienced, Sun's JDK is the best of all. The GCJ has a lot of
>> problems and can't support a lot of applications,such as
>> eclipse,netbeans,jedit,etc. Most of the time, GCJ is two or three times
>> slower than Sun's JDK. I feel very uncomfortable to always use "sudo
>> updatealternatives --config java" for every big update. Now even JDK's
>> source codes are open-sourced, I really can't find any clues that the Sun's
>> JDK can't be the default. Please consider it seriously. I'm a developer, so
>> I know how to change it. For those average endusers, they may feel angry to
>> run java applications much slowly than they have done in windows.
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Yueyu Lin
>>     
>
> Looks like openjdk is the default in Intrepid:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/default-jdk
>
> Chris
>
>   
Sweet!!!

-- 
-john

To be or not to be, that is the question
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(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
        0b11000100 || !0b11000100
        0b11000100 || 0b00111011
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        255, that is the answer.






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