Since starting my PhD at Virginia Tech, I was sold on FreeBSD (FBSD) We had it running in our labs and I got a great deal of local support for making the change to it. I loved that. I love the security, I love the stability (vs. what I was running before).
Now, I'm in the midst of developing the software that is central to my PhD dissertation and I have a group of students working on this developement in Java. They ALL run Linux (Red Hat, Caldera, etc). After this semster is over, I plan to dump FBSD off my dual boot (Win 2000/FBSD) and move to Mandrake. I can't take that the Java port is STILL at 1.1.8 (and 1.2 is only in beta). I can't compile my research work at home, and unfortunately that is a central need to my computing existence at this time.
If FBSD gets native JDK suport worked out, I'll be back. Until then..... it was cool while it lasted.
What I find pathetic is that it's not listed (as of this reply) in the Windows Update "feature".... shouldn't it be in there? That's supposed to be the one stop location for my bug fixes and patches.... Grrrr.
Oh we're out here in the audience, but know better than to get involved with that stuff.
I learned enough to get past my PhD comprehensives and will be happy to leave P/NP at that.
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Since starting my PhD at Virginia Tech, I was sold on FreeBSD (FBSD) We had it running in our labs and I got a great deal of local support for making the change to it. I loved that. I love the security, I love the stability (vs. what I was running before).
Now, I'm in the midst of developing the software that is central to my PhD dissertation and I have a group of students working on this developement in Java. They ALL run Linux (Red Hat, Caldera, etc). After this semster is over, I plan to dump FBSD off my dual boot (Win 2000/FBSD) and move to Mandrake. I can't take that the Java port is STILL at 1.1.8 (and 1.2 is only in beta). I can't compile my research work at home, and unfortunately that is a central need to my computing existence at this time.
If FBSD gets native JDK suport worked out, I'll be back. Until then..... it was cool while it lasted.
What I find pathetic is that it's not listed (as of this reply) in the Windows Update "feature".... shouldn't it be in there? That's supposed to be the one stop location for my bug fixes and patches.... Grrrr.
Oh we're out here in the audience, but know better than to get involved with that stuff. I learned enough to get past my PhD comprehensives and will be happy to leave P/NP at that.