Re: LinuxPPC vs. RedHat???

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:

quoted

-Other than recompiling on wintel for delivery, can anyone see
potential problems with using LinuxPPC in a RedHat shop?
-Any known problems with JAVA tools (JDK, JSDK, Tomcat)?

You mean taking LinuxPPC and trying to rebuild it on x86?  Good luck.  The
words source compatible tend to be somewhat exaggerated when it comes to
real-world use, especially where RPMs are involved.  Just MHO.

Reading the last bullet point, I think the poster was asking about
developing something in Java.

I personally have been using the Blackdown JDK 1.2.x tools on LinuxPPC
since they were released and have never had a problem moving Java source
OR binaries between JDK 1.2/Blackdown/LinuxPPC and JDK
1.2/Blackdown/RedHat5.2 - 6.1. I've been using Tomcat and Sun JSDK 2.0
since the first milestone drop and haven't ever had a problem that's not
reproducible on RedHat for x86. As far as I can tell, they are bug
compatible :-)

You'll have a harder time finding .rpm's for Tomcat, etc for PPC, but
that's not going to really stop you from doing Java development on
LinuxPPC in a RedHat shop at all.

Bill


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