[Gllug] Newcomer

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Fri Oct 31 07:18:38 UTC 2003


On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:13:21PM +0000, Harry Mantheakis wrote:
> Hi Garry
> 
> Thanks for the information. As it happens I have had my head stuck into Java
> for past couple of years, and one of things I want to do is run Tomcat to
> serve up dynamic content. (In fact I have an application in mind, using
> PostgreSQL most likely as the DB.)

> I feel really spoilt for choice as far as the distros go! For a newcomer, at
> least, there does not seem to be all that much to distinguish between
> Mandrake, Suse and RH.

You might want to look at JPackage to provide sane rpms of JDK and
tomcat.  Should work fine on Mandrake and Red Hat (or Fedora Core), it
was ok on Suse but possibly not recently tested as not really access to
Suse boxes.


Paul

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