Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

In article <5l03s5$qgl_at_panix.com>, Bryan Althaus <bryan_at_panix.com> wrote:

>thought it was funny. Just that Linux people tend to get by with
>what they have.

Hmm...I can't speak for the poster who made the original statement, but I happen to have Java Workshop installed on my Linux box. I don't use it, though, because I find writing my code in Emacs to be much faster. It may just be a matter of personal preference, but I find the GUI builder thing in JWS to be extremely cumbersome. And if you're not using that, there's really not a huge advantage to JWS over, say, Emacs, make, and the JDK.

OTOH, I run Sparc Solaris, SparcLinux, Solaris x86, and Linux (x86) on the various machines I have at home and work, and for me (SA/Perl programmer/Java programmer), I've not found a great deal of difference in usability from platform to platform. Solaris is marginally more turn-key than Linux, Linux has somewhat better driver support. Pretty much an even trade-off, IMHO.

*shrug*

/MC

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