[TriLUG] Re: Managed languages (was .NET development on Linux)

[Lance A. Brown]

Joseph Tate wrote:
> Also, as a kind of watermark: Occasionally I'll log into the Durham 
> County Library System's web catalog system (a Java applet deployed via 
> browser).  It's relatively quick using IE and MSJVM, but it's slower 
> than molasses on a cold day in FireFox using a Sun supplied JRE in 
> either Windows or Linux.  Could be Mozilla's fault, but it's 
> unacceptable.  Oh, and Eclipse?  The last Milestone 3.0 release doesn't 
> run with IBM's Java.  It requires the Sun JDK.  Talk about screwball.

Another data point:  I just logged into the Durham County Library 
catalog.  Took about 10 seconds to fully activate, searching for 
author and drilling down to a book description has been quick and 
easy.  I'm running Fedora Core 1 with Blackdown Java-Linux j2sdk1.4.2 
in Firefox 0.8.

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