How Much Java in the Linux World?

jg21 writes "Java is 'incredibly heavily used' in the Linux community, according to Sun's James Gosling, one of Java's co-creators. Gosling was debating Stanford's Lawrence Lessig, Apache co-founder Brian Behlendorf, IBM's Rod Smith, and others at JavaOne this week about the possible merits of open-sourcing Java vs the market's demand for continuing compatibility. But Behlendorf seemed not to agree. So who was right, how many Slashdotters are also Java users? Is "incredibly heavily used" an overstatement by Gosling, who after all helped create the language and therefore might be biased?"

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Re:ermmm hold it folks

[msobkow]

Sounds like the same whiners who complain if some ancient piece of hardware isn't supported in the kernel any more, even if it was off the market and essentially obsolete years ago.

When you have something vaguely resembling a 5-year old system with at least 256MB RAM, then you'll have a right to complain about performance. Until then, you're just penny-pinching junk hardware and it's your own damned fault you have performance problems.