On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 09:47 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 02:13, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> What do you nean by 'tolerate' Java? What are the disadvantages of
> installing Java?
It's big, it's slow,
True. Always improving and computers are getting faster and faster...
it has it's own concept of human interface instead
of inheriting that from the windowing toolkit;
Consequence of 'write once, run anywhere' as different platforms use
their own windowing mechanisms a single java based solution was/is a
better fit for java's goals than the horror of AWT. Also, there is work
being done to remedy the windowing toolkit problem, at least for gnome :
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view
it isn't part of the
base distribution so you have to track updates separately.
It will be for FC4 :) so you wont have to. And it's FOSS java.
And for the
paranoid set - it's controlled by a company with its own agenda.
Sun's Java is not really controlled by _one_ company [the name is, but
not the code base]. Research the JCP.
--
Craig Thomas <cjtinhp(a)optonline.net>