Re: Canonical Way to install Java
"Kent West" <westk@nicanor.acu.edu> writes:
> I can get Java installed and working in my browsers, but at the risk
> of starting a Holy Way, what's the canonical way to install Java
> (run-time only needed, not dev. kit)?
>
> From Blackdown? From Sun? From Debian's site, which seems to only
> have JDK1.1 for Sid?
>
> I would suspect that Sun's JRE is *the* JRE, whereas Blackdown's might
> work better with Linux, whereas Debian's is more "official".
I haven't seen anyone mention IBM's offering
(http://www.ibm.com/java). I know at one point the IBM runtime was 20%
or so faster on a lot of benchmarks than the other offerings, that was
some time ago though. I haven't used it in a while, but it seemed
decent to me.
Gary
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