Re: Debian / Free Java

2000-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:24:01AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > 3. How does the PowerPC version of Debian compare to the x86 version? Is > it a viable way to go? The powerpc version of Debian is in pretty good shape, there are a couple packages here and there that are missing or broken but i

Re: Debian / Free Java

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "ER" == Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ER> 1. What Java does Debian come with? You can surf to the rather excellent search page: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and do a keyword search for any package you wish. As for Blackdown, once you have apt set up, add this

Debian / Free Java

2000-10-31 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'm interested in Debian because I understand it is a completely free/open source linux distribution. I also have been intrigued after reading this list about the package manager used in Debian. I think some of the other Linux distributions are making it hard to keep a completely free platform