Comments on: Ubuntu 8.10 – A Productive Java Development Environment

By: rio

rio — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:22:13 +0000

Hi guys, I have a tutorial how to install Sun JDK (direct from java.sun.com) not using apt-get..

You may want to read it. The link is : http://rioastamal.net/2008/10/tutorial-how-to-install-java-on-ubuntu-linux/

Thanks.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:56:19 +0000

Thanks Denis, but I wonder why doesn’t Canonical include the latest version of Eclipe?

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:40:52 +0000

Don’t install Eclipse in ubuntu from repo – it’s very old (3.2, current is 3.4), and uses gcj, not sun’s java virtual machine. Just download archive from http://www.eclipse.org, than extract it somewhere, install sun java through sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jdk, setup preferred java virtual machine with sudo update-alternatives –config java, then launch binary in /your/path/to/extracted/eclipse/files/bin/eclipse

By: James

James — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:24:43 +0000

Hi Lamida,
I run Ubuntu on a much slower machine (1.6 Ghz, 1GB RAM) and I’m very happy with the performance of NetBeans on Ubuntu. I don’t know what configuration is missing in your case. How did you install it? Via Wubi or went through a full installation?

By: lamida

lamida — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:12:04 +0000

Hai James, I have just moved my Java devolepment activity from Windows to Ubuntu 8.10. I have installed sun JDK 6 update 11, Netbeans 6.5, and Eclipse 3.4. Installation process works smooth. The problem are when I start to work with Eclipse or Netbeans, it run really slow and heavy. Eclipse still usable although it is slow, and Netbeans, almost unusable. I wonder why those thing happen. In Windows, in same machine (intel dual core 1.8 GHz processor and RAM 2.5 GB) Eclipse and Windows run very fast.

I really need some suggestion for those thing. Hopefully there will be solution. Thanx.

By: Byju

Byju — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:15:28 +0000

This post is very informative. I was enthusiastic to learn linux and have just installed ubuntu few weeks back ,but didn’t get time to try further. Your post is an inspiration to explore further.

By: James

James — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:23:01 +0000

Hi Bharani, Saravana,
I hope you enjoy Ubuntu installed using Wubi. But once you get a grip on it, I suggest you to go for a full installation. It’s as easy as installing via Wubi. I went for it and I’m enjoying Ubuntu’s performance and speed which is defintely superior to Windows. Cheers!

By: saravana

saravana — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:04:55 +0000

Hi James, I thank you for your good work. I am using ubuntu in NTFS using wubi. It is a very nice experience working in it, almost all features works out of the box and for any tweaking or extra work there is always great support from the community and blogs like this.

By: Bharani

Bharani — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:20:31 +0000

This is a great blog. I’m running Ubuntu 8.1 using Wubi. Nice experience so far. Cheers!!

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:12:58 +0000

one of my linux-user friend told me that the Netbeans slowness may caused by linux default set it to gcj.
So change it to Sun Java 6 may solve the issue. But I haven’t tried it since.