StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Applet viewer looks nicer, and AWT not so bad, since no overblown fonts. Slightly faster. Have not tried using the plugin though. Eclipse is slightly faster.

Anyway, I have it debianized (my debianized version sucks though since i had to make it edit /etc/profile for you to modify the path instead of making symlinks (it refuses to work if you link stuff, and therefore after removal it will leave blank spaces after your /etc/profile, since I don't know how to delete lines with sed. Also nuked /etc/profile a couple of times due to usage of > instead of >>). I can give patches for dpkg-buildpackage if anyone wants them, or you can alien the RPM from the IBM website.

I've had problems running JEdit with it before, but then again, who needs it when you have eclipse? The GTK swing theme is not available.


NPTL worked somewhat, improving Java performance, and make ps ax less messy since only one process per app, but all my QT apps, nVidia driver, and terminal emulators kept segfaulting. Probably should wait 6 months before integration into distro.

Unfortunately, it also lacks any man pages or documentation, so you will have to get that from the Sun SDK. Debian patches include it. However, it might not be legal to distribute bits and pieces like this, so meh.

BTW, the package fails a few lintian tests, mostly due to IBM's idiosyncracies, such as embedding data into a shell script, and giving executable permissions to HTML files. The shell script with embedded data for installing web start I'm just going to leave as is, since no one uses web start