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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."

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  1. The important aspects of Eclipse are... by Real+World+Stuff · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is your dick.
    This is your dick on GNU...
    Glug Glug Slurp Fwap Fwap Fwap
    Oh Richie!
    Oh Richie!
    Oh Richie!
    Oh RICHIE!
    FART!

    GNU is for amoral ass puzzlers.

    Can the Manham in Gramma!

    --
    If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
  2. My girlfriend would be into swinging? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    WTF is an ass puzzler?

    My girlfriend asked me today if I find lesbian sex erotic. Suspecting a trap, I tried to evade the question but she pressed on until I was forced to concede that yes, I do find lesbian porn on the net erotic. "But that's porn, it doesn't mean that I would want you to try it" I hastened to add. To my surprise she said that before we got together, she had had thoughts about experimenting with one of her girlfriends after they had been clubbing but had given up the idea when the walk home had sobered her up a bit.

    After that she asked me if I had ever had homosexual encounters (nope) and if I could imagine myself having sex with another man (yes, sure, given the right circumstances such as her permission).

    She finished off the discussion by saying "well, maybe we should start swinging..."

    Was she serious?! I still don't know and I don't dare to ask.

    1. Re:My girlfriend would be into swinging? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      such as her permission

      Good catch that one. ;-)

      She sounds like a pretty open minded girl so I would just ask her if she was serious.

  3. hurd of anything gnu recently? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Any time some gpl zealot trumpets some "success" I ask them about gnu/hurd and they shut up real quick. Some of them do anyway, most have never even heard of it. pathetic.......
    Then again, what do I know, I actually write code, not software licenses. Morons.