Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:23 -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > >>I can't see spending my time working on Sun's code, but that's your >>choice, and if it works for you more power to you. >> >> > >You know, for every Kurt, there have to be several hundred people >(OpenBSD users or otherwise) who say "if I wanted to deal with Sun every >day, I'd run Solaris instead" and frankly, I don't blame them. Every > > That sounds completely stupid to me. Solaris is a horrible operating system with too many holes and problems to mention. There are other options that I would choose first.
>attempt to use Java here has caused more problems than it has solved; >it's simply a resource pig. I'm sure it runs great on the fully loaded >sparc64 boxen that Sun salesweasels are pimping for >$UNGODLY_AMOUNT_OF_CASH; sorry, but I don't have that kind of money. > > Sun hardware is not that expensive anymore. You need to price some equipment comperable to what is out there now in the 64bit hardware range. Please don't spout off without having a solid understanding of what you're talking about. >I can't wait until Kaffe is usable as a JVM, as I suspect it won't have >the same problems that Sun has put into its "reference" Java >implementation. Until then, I've decided simply to avoid using Java >applications as much as possible. > > You'll be waiting a considerable amount of time. Avoiding using java is like trying to ignore the pink elephant in the room until you have a gun big enough to shoot it. :-) If you have java applications that you need to run, run them. Brandon
