[geeks] Gentoo / Sparc / Java development anyone?

[Gary Nichols]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 09:52:48AM -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
> > I'm having a challenge today.  I'm running Gentoo Sparc Linux on a dual 
> > 450 U60 workstation.  I have synced the latest portage tree and I'm trying 
> > like hell to find a Java JRE/SDK that will emerge.  All of the ones in 
> > portage seem to be masked for x86.  Anybody?  Bueller? 
> > You would think that Sun would have a Java SDK that works on 
> > linux/sparc... but NOOOOooooo.  *grumble*
> 
> You're wasting a perfectly good dual 450Mhz U60 ... on Linux?

Hey, thems' fightin' words 'round these parts.   Gentoo on sparc is 
*sweet* and *fast*.   I prefer Solaris for server-side work.