November 12
Fedora Core 8: The Java Developer’s OS?
by David Palmer
Red Hat’s non-profit arm, project Fedora just released Core 8, Fedora’s/Red Hat’s distribution of Linux. Fedora has long been a very developer-friendly operating system (unlike Ubuntu which lacks any developer tools out of the box) has taken further steps to embrace Java development.
Included with FC8 is OpenJDK and IcedTea, the open source version of the JDK /JVM and build tools. With Sun setting Java “free” OpenJDK and the IcedTea projects have become the de-facto open source Java environment.
Also included with FC8 is Eclipse, Maven, Ant, Tomcat5 (this should probably be 6) and Jetty. So we are talking major hardcore Java development right out of the box.
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