Project JPackage

If you ever wondered there should be an easier way to install Java apps on Linux distros, you have to know JPackage (http://www.jpackage.org). They take popular apps, like Tomcat, Netbeans, Argouml, Xalan, jext and even various versions of Sun Java2 SDK and package on RPM format for easy install on many distros. They even configure correct dependencies between packages, you if you use apt or yum you can be sure everything that's needed will be downloaded and installed.

White Box Linux

As far as I know, White Box Enterprise Linux (http://www.whiteboxlinux.org) is the first free distro to include Java applications out-of-the box. It is based on Red Hat Enterprise 3, which compiles Tomcat and others using GCJ (http://gcc.gnu.org/java) so they can provide then on a completely free linux distribution, something is not possible using Sun JVM.

Fedora Core 2

This the first freeware Red Hat distribution to include the GCJ-compiled code made availabe with their Enterprise distribution. It includes ant, tomcat, junit, struts, xerces, jdbc drivers and many jakarta-commons packages, so it's ready for deploying and/or development for most Java web applications, unless you also needs EJBs. See http://fedora.redhat.com

-- Main.flozano - 23 Jan 2004

-- Main.flozano - 28 Jul 2004 Updated with Fedora info