Yes, as others have already said, LyX is a good wrapper/UI. It's also good if you want to produce properly typesetted output without learning the intrincacies of LaTeX.
Time is never free, neither mine nor anyone i know. I prefer to go the extra mile when setting up a server to know that it will work exactly as i want it to, and for that, FreeBSD is a magnificent platform; you seem to advocate for a prepackaged solution. Who is right ?. If it gets the job done, both of us. Don't get me wrong, i do appreciate Linux, especcialy lightweight non RPM distros á la Slackware, i will, as time permits, experiment with Solaris 10 as well. Still, if there is one thing lacking from FreeBSD, it's not Java but a native Oracle port (Not FreeBSD's fault of course)
Yes, but there is a very dedicated team that manages to produce a very high quality J2SDK implementation, even if the installation involves compiling Java from scratch. 1.4.2-p7 runs a production Tomcat site like a dream here. I am very happy with OS X as as desktop OS, but i would not rate Apple's SDK as highly as FreeBSD's one, YMMV, of course. BTW, nobody knows if Apple intends to ship a 64bit JVM with Tiger, au contraire, FreeBSD's Java team has an already working, if early one, for AMD64.
--------Quick recipe to get up and running with Java under FreeBSD ------
a) Make sure to be running a modular kernel OR a kernel with linux compatibility enabled (Compile phase only) b) Read http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/ c) Make sure to have a relatively recent ports tree d) cd/usr/ports/java/jdk14 e) make install f) follow instructions.
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Yes, as others have already said, LyX is a good wrapper/UI. It's also good if you want to produce properly typesetted output without learning the intrincacies of LaTeX.
Time is never free, neither mine nor anyone i know.
I prefer to go the extra mile when setting up a server to know that it will work exactly as i want it to, and for that, FreeBSD is a magnificent platform; you seem to advocate for a prepackaged solution. Who is right ?. If it gets the job done, both of us.
Don't get me wrong, i do appreciate Linux, especcialy lightweight non RPM distros á la Slackware, i will, as time permits, experiment with Solaris 10 as well.
Still, if there is one thing lacking from FreeBSD, it's not Java but a native Oracle port (Not FreeBSD's fault of course)
Yes, but there is a very dedicated team that manages to produce a very high quality J2SDK implementation, even if the installation involves compiling Java from scratch. 1.4.2-p7 runs a production Tomcat site like a dream here. I am very happy with OS X as as desktop OS, but i would not rate Apple's SDK as highly as FreeBSD's one, YMMV, of course. BTW, nobody knows if Apple intends to ship a 64bit JVM with Tiger, au contraire, FreeBSD's Java team has an already working, if early one, for AMD64.
c) Make sure to have a relatively recent ports tree /usr/ports/java/jdk14
--------Quick recipe to get up and running with Java under FreeBSD ------
a) Make sure to be running a modular kernel OR a kernel with linux compatibility enabled (Compile phase only)
b) Read http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/
d) cd
e) make install
f) follow instructions.