[Techtalk] Java on Linux

[coldfire]

> The last time I worked with java on FreeBSD it worked fine except for
> threads. That was a year ago, things might have changed in the meantime.
> Right now I use Sun's JDK on linux. If you download the tar file and do a
> make install;make, that should do it. The instructions for setting up your
> CLASSPATH is in the docs.

i just installed jdk 1.3.1 last night, and there are no makefiles that i
have found.  it's just a self extracting tgz shell script.  the
installation file can be found here:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/install-linux-sdk.html


coldie