Re: Java IDE

[Martin Bishop <martinbishop@crosswinds.net>]

Oki DZ [okidz@pindad.com] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Have you ever run Forte on Debian systems? I have looked at it on Sun's
> website. The doc says that to run it you'd need a powerful system (P.
> III). The IDE is distributed on .rpm format, the size is about 9M. I was
> wondering whether Forte would eat up so much CPU power; does it so? Any
> experience with it? Any hope to run it on P 133?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Oki

Hi Oki,

I've tried Forte on a Celeron 450 with 128MB using Sun's
JDK 1.2.2 and it is slooow. 

On WinXX it is much better, still a bit slow, but you can
work comfortably.

If you must use a Java IDE in Linux, may I suggest JBuilder.
It's a bit faster than Forte.

MB.