Re: java, jdk, blackdown & redhat

[Sean Cavanaugh <seanc@unixgeeks.ca>]

Craig Miller wrote:
> 
> After perusing the mailing list archives a bit, the most common suggestion
> for a JDK is to run blackdown along with the redhat emulation environment.
> I am wondering...
> 
> Why run OpenBSD if I have to run a redhat emulator in order to run my
> servers?  Seriously, I am wondering if there is a benefit to running it this
> way over running blackdown in its native redhat environment.

Well, my experience with Linux is that you have to constantly keep up on
which packages have holes and when a package has to be upgraded,
dependencies can be hell.  

Then there is the neater code, less bloated base install, and of course
the security of OpenBSD over the Linux crowd.

In other words, if you don't already have a reason to run OpenBSD
instead of Linux, then there is no real advantage to doing so.  But I
would anyways. =)

See compat_linux(8) for more info, of course.

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Sean Cavanaugh - seanc@unixgeeks.ca