Re: Re: IDE on Linux

["John Wells" <jb@sourceillustrated.com>]

Ummm....I've been running Eclipse on Red Hat 8 since RH8 was first
released.  I use it everyday.  It works quite nicely.

John

> When I tried to run the latest trial version of IntelliJ on RedHat 8.0,
> I was unable to run the HelpBrowser because it was actually trying to
> launch the Internet Explorer executable.  I complained to IntteliJ, but
> they did not respond.
>
> Also, Eclipse does not run correctly on RedHat 8.0.  It will run
> correctly  on RedHat 7.1.  I don't know about releases in between.  When
> I say that it does not run correctly, I mean that it will not even
> start.  Since the mailing list and help process on Eclipse was so
> extremely "closed" for an open source project, I did not pursue this
> issue.   I did scan the newsgroups  and saw that others were having
> problems with Eclipse under Linux.
>
>
> NetBeans runs OK but is somewhat overkill.  I actually like JEdit.  At
> least for me, it seems to run reliably on all versions of Linux and does
> not require a large time commitment to get started using it.
>
> Cindy Jeness
>
>
>>
>> From: Jon Steelman <jon@cc.gatech.edu>
>> Date: 2003/04/03 Thu AM 11:06:21 EST
>> To: Milind Patil <milindpatil@gmx.net>,  ajug-members@ajug.org
>> Subject: Re: IDE on Linux
>>
>> Milind Patil wrote:
>>
>> >Hi ,
>> >
>> >Can anyone recommend an IDE on Linux platform.
>> >
>> IDEA works great on Linux.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>