Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Have you ever run Forte on Debian systems? I have looked at it on Sun's > website. The doc says that to run it you'd need a powerful system (P. > III). The IDE is distributed on .rpm format, the size is about 9M. I was > wondering whether Forte would eat up so much CPU power; does it so? Any > experience with it? Any hope to run it on P 133? > > Thanks in advance. > Oki
Hi Oki, I've tried Forte on a Celeron 450 with 128MB using Sun's JDK 1.2.2 and it is slooow. On WinXX it is much better, still a bit slow, but you can work comfortably. If you must use a Java IDE in Linux, may I suggest JBuilder. It's a bit faster than Forte. MB.