create GUI linux application

[John Summerfied]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:35:25AM -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> 
>>>>If it isn't a huge application
>>>>why not try java ? :-)
>>>
>>>Because that's pretty iffy in an open source environment right now.
>>
>>We're shipping Eclipse and Tomcat with FC4.  Those are pretty big examples
>>of things that work in a fully open source environment right now.
> 
> 
> Yes, some specific things work great. But are you really saying that in
> general open source Java is ready for prime-time?
> 

While googling for an earlier reply, I found this:
http://ometer.com/desktop-language.html

I was going to flash it up when someone extolled the virtues of C again:-)

The author should be well-known hereabouts. He works for RH, is a former 
Pres of the Gnome foundation.

and his name's "Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington." I'd always assume he 
hailed from some middle-European country, but no, he just has weird parents.


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