Re: [ajug-members]: FreeBSD (& commodity 64bit)

[Angus Berry <angus.berry@elken.com>]

Barry,

I guess I hadn't looked at blackdown.org recently... it appears that
commodity 64bit Java is upon us already! They already have an rc1 of
their 1.4.1 AMD64 JVM for Linux available for download. I know that
Blackdown works in partnership with Sun, so maybe they're producing the
JVM that Sun will test & brand as their Linux JVM.

On another note, Best Buy had an AMD64 powered eMachines laptop on
special offer for around $1,500 this past week.

Outside of *nix world, I hear that the beta of XP for 64bit is very fast
too.

Angus


On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 22:33, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> Angus,
> 	I like the way you think.  As for the BSDs, I can only speak to 
> FreeBSD, but what goes for it usually goes for NetBSD and OpenBSD as 
> well.  The FreeBSD ports collection includes several JVM choices.  I am 
> by no means an expert on the choices, but Blackdown, Sun Linux, and 
> native JDKs are the most popular ones based on what I see on the 
> freebsd-java list.  The native JDK is compiled using the JDK source 
> code from Sun (for those who don't know, you can download it by 
> registering and agreeing to the SCSL) and a patchset maintained on a 
> separate site.
> 	I can't speak to threading issue comparisons, but I know that FreeBSD 
> 5 has some significant advances in its threading model.  I will see 
> what I can find out on the mailing list and post back.  I would try 
> now, but I am out of time.
> 
> Regards,