Comments on: Switching platform from Windows to Linux for Java development. What you will miss? http://www.pakzilla.com/2009/07/02/switching-platform-from-windows-to-linux-for-java-development-what-you-will-miss/ A blog on Programming, Web and Technology Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tahir Akram http://www.pakzilla.com/2009/07/02/switching-platform-from-windows-to-linux-for-java-development-what-you-will-miss/comment-page-1/#comment-2017 Tahir Akram Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:43:49 +0000 http://www.pakzilla.com/?p=490#comment-2017 I have mixed type of feelings after this migration. <strong>Development</strong> And development didn't got effect. We only need to change some of our config files where we have hardcoded Windows style paths. Java really proved "write once run anywhere". The source code which we copied from Windows before migration, worked perfectly well on Linux without any headache of configuring environment. And Eclipse and Tomcat are all JVM based so there is no issue at all with them. <strong>Other Computing</strong> One of our web app is not cross browser and that only worked on IE. So to install IE on Linux we installed WineServer a VM software. And that eat memory like hell. It keep gradually increase consuming resources. And your system started responding very slow. I found Fedora bit slower than Windows XP. My system is Dell Optiplex 320 with 2 GB of RAM. I was very happy with its performance on Windows XP but it give tough time on Fedora. I dont know why OpenOffice is slow. If you just scroll the mouse button with spead, you will see it trailing dead slowly. So its a big shift and it really effects the way you efficiently do things. Some times open source alternate didn't gave that pleasure of work that you can feel on Windows apps. But being all such kind of applications free, its a blessing. I have mixed type of feelings after this migration.

Development
And development didn’t got effect. We only need to change some of our config files where we have hardcoded Windows style paths. Java really proved “write once run anywhere”. The source code which we copied from Windows before migration, worked perfectly well on Linux without any headache of configuring environment. And Eclipse and Tomcat are all JVM based so there is no issue at all with them.

Other Computing
One of our web app is not cross browser and that only worked on IE. So to install IE on Linux we installed WineServer a VM software. And that eat memory like hell. It keep gradually increase consuming resources. And your system started responding very slow.

I found Fedora bit slower than Windows XP. My system is Dell Optiplex 320 with 2 GB of RAM. I was very happy with its performance on Windows XP but it give tough time on Fedora.

I dont know why OpenOffice is slow. If you just scroll the mouse button with spead, you will see it trailing dead slowly.

So its a big shift and it really effects the way you efficiently do things. Some times open source alternate didn’t gave that pleasure of work that you can feel on Windows apps. But being all such kind of applications free, its a blessing.

]]> By: eMBee http://www.pakzilla.com/2009/07/02/switching-platform-from-windows-to-linux-for-java-development-what-you-will-miss/comment-page-1/#comment-2003 eMBee Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:38:45 +0000 http://www.pakzilla.com/?p=490#comment-2003 what i am missing is a writeup of your actual experience after switching to linux. did you miss anything. did 'write once run anywhere' really work out? did you have trouble adjusting to the different applications? ... greetings, eMBee. what i am missing is a writeup of your actual experience after switching to linux. did you miss anything. did ‘write once run anywhere’ really work out? did you have trouble adjusting to the different applications? …

greetings, eMBee.

]]> By: Asif Shahzad http://www.pakzilla.com/2009/07/02/switching-platform-from-windows-to-linux-for-java-development-what-you-will-miss/comment-page-1/#comment-982 Asif Shahzad Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:24:33 +0000 http://www.pakzilla.com/?p=490#comment-982 Seems good! Let us see, whether your org. and staff can continue with that. At least you should be very happy, as you have done your final year java web enterprise project on Linux using MySQL, JBoss, and Netbeans, etc. Wish you best of luck! Seems good! Let us see, whether your org. and staff can continue with that. At least you should be very happy, as you have done your final year java web enterprise project on Linux using MySQL, JBoss, and Netbeans, etc. Wish you best of luck!

]]> By: Zamoyski http://www.pakzilla.com/2009/07/02/switching-platform-from-windows-to-linux-for-java-development-what-you-will-miss/comment-page-1/#comment-946 Zamoyski Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:13:32 +0000 http://www.pakzilla.com/?p=490#comment-946 One and propably only one thing I would miss in Linux (Debian) world is TOTAL COMMANDER. No one will convince me that Gnome Commander, Midnight Commander, WTF Commander is better than it. One and propably only one thing I would miss in Linux (Debian) world is TOTAL COMMANDER. No one will convince me that Gnome Commander, Midnight Commander, WTF Commander is better than it.

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