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Eclipse M7

Weeeeeee! Eclipse is finally usable on my powerbook. M7 hit the streets a few days ago (or that’s when I noticed it anyway) and the performance improvements are quite nice, particularly on OS X. My plans for getting debian installed on my laptop can now take a bit of a back seat as I don’t need a Linux or Windows box to run Eclipse on anymore.

This is actually a major relief since my PC has died recently and the state of Java on Linux for PPC is absolutely abysmal. I can’t seem to find a fully complete version of 1.3 let alone 1.4 - in this context fully complete requires a functional JIT. Maybe people should stop winging about Apple taking too long to release new Java updates.

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 19th, 2004 at 5:58 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the Atom feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Eclipse M7”

  1. Stephan Michels Says:
    February 20th, 2004 at 8:31 pm

    You can get a 1.4.1 JDK from IBM for PPC/linux. I use it since nearly a half year, without a problem. Moreover it works better than Blackdown’s or Suns JDK for i386/linux.


  2. menesis Says:
    February 21st, 2004 at 5:02 am

    Apple has released Java 1.4.2 for OS X a few days ago — http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/ . I haven’t tried it, though.


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