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GNU Christmas Gift: Free Eclipse

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the compile-once-run-sort-of dept.

Mark Wielaard writes "Your friendly neighbourhood GNU did it again. A year ago IBM made much noise about placing $40 million of its software tools under a free software license. Technically these tools, called Eclipse, are great for developing (java) software. There was only one catch, it was build on top of the proprietary java platform. This made it useless for the Free Software community. Luckily the GNU project has two projects that come to the rescue. GNU Classpath, core libraries for java, and gcj, the GNU Compiler for Java. We are now able to run Eclipse on a completely free platform! It is not yet complete, but you can already edit, compile and browse CVS with it. And since Eclipse uses GTK+ it also looks very nice. I setup a page with instructions on how to get this working so you can help us make it work even better or just so you can view a couple of nice screenshots."

5 of 250 comments (clear)

  1. Re:fp by AlfaGiik · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Yeah, but everyone has to get one. At least it wasn't a troll.

    Sorry if I offended, not the intention. -jk

  2. Re:Keep the zealotry to yourself by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was going to say "Welcome to Slashdot" but then I noticed your UIN =)

  3. Re:Free Software Community by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is anyone else seeing this post scored 5 when it's really 2?

  4. Re:Free Software Community by ceejayoz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You've got Twirlip of the Mists listed as your friend. You can modify your preferences for how friends are treated here.

  5. Re:sun and java by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    I wish sun would just open up the java libraries

    ...and while I'm at it, I wish I had a pony.

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