Before I download eclipse for linux

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thirdrock - 21 Nov 2004 08:33 GMT

Hello All,

Before I suck up some 30-70MEG of my monthly download allowance
downloading Eclipse for Linux, can anyone tell me if it is worth the
time/effort/bandwidth?

I have Eclipse running under WindersNT4, and I like it, but I've heard
that the Linux version is somewhat under par. Is this still the case?

Alternatively, can someone recommend a good editor for writing Java
(other than emacs which I hate more than WindowsXP)? With a good editor
I'll just compile from the command-line and eventually learn Ant.

Thanks for any and all replies,

Ian

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Lothar Leidner - 22 Nov 2004 10:10 GMT

>Hello All,
>
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>I have Eclipse running under WindersNT4, and I like it, but I've heard
>that the Linux version is somewhat under par. Is this still the case?

I've running eclipse 3.1 M3 both on Windows and on Linux Slackware 10
and I like it very much. Most of my programming I do on the Linux box.
Basicly I'm programming java applets, and I must admit that I'm using
only a small part of the many eclipse features. But everything I need
is working.

Regards,

Lothar Leidner

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thirdrock - 22 Nov 2004 11:07 GMT

> I've running eclipse 3.1 M3 both on Windows and on Linux Slackware 10
> and I like it very much. Most of my programming I do on the Linux box.
> Basicly I'm programming java applets, and I must admit that I'm using
> only a small part of the many eclipse features. But everything I need
> is working.

Hi Lothar,
Thanks for replying. Some time ago it was said that the Linux version of
eclipse was *very* slow. These days, with 2.4ghz and 512M boxen, nothing
much seems to be slow, but do you find eclipse under linux much? slower
than under windows?

Thanks,
Ian

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Lothar Leidner - 22 Nov 2004 17:08 GMT

> eclipse was *very* slow. These days, with 2.4ghz and 512M boxen, nothing
> much seems to be slow, but do you find eclipse under linux much? slower
> than under windows?

I haven't done any quantitative tests, but for me there is no significant
difference in performance (on my 2.4 GHz system).

Lothar Leidner

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Michael Jastram - 22 Nov 2004 16:08 GMT

I use Eclipse (latest stable) on both Windows 2000 an Linux - I am
very happy with it on both platforms.

Performance is definitely not an issue (the Linux machine is an
ancient 1 GHz machine with 512 MB memory).

Tweaking the GUI can be a bit of an issue. There is a GTK and Motif
version - go with GTK! If you use Gnome, the look&feel should be
fine. If you use KDE, you may have to tinker a bit (I documented my
GUI tinkerings here: http://jastram.de/story.php?id=171 ).

Good luck!

- Michael

> Hello All,
>
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>
> Ian

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thirdrock - 23 Nov 2004 01:06 GMT

> I use Eclipse (latest stable) on both Windows 2000 an Linux - I am
> very happy with it on both platforms.
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> Good luck!

Thanks. I am using KDE, but the gtklibs are installed, and I assume(uh
oh) that gtk has been statically compiled into eclipse anyways.
I'll check out the link above once I've downloaded, installed etc.

Thanks for replying,

Ian

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