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Hi all, |
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I just installed Gentoo on my laptop after having FreeBSD as my desktop |
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for a long time. |
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I felt Gentoo would be my best shot at using and enjoying a Linux |
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distribution for my desktop, as Gentoo promises a lot of freedom and choice. |
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All up its pretty darn good but I have to say I am a bit disappointed |
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with the Tomcat/Apache/Java choices Gentoo portage has to offer. |
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The main reason I am interested in Gentoo Linux was the fact I can use a |
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Java supplied from Sun as an alternative to some of the FreeBSD native |
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Java compiled via ports with Tomcat. I have servers running under |
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Apache2.0.55 and Apache2.2.0 with Tomcat 5.5.x |
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My main problems are there is not a full set of choices of Apache that |
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being just 1.3.x or Apache 2.0.x and no Apache 2.2.x. |
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Apache 2.2.x has some great new features like a built in AJP module for |
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linking Tomcat and Apache together with out needing the external mod_ajp |
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module. |
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Secondly there is only Tomcat 5.0.x in portage, in FreeBSD there is |
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Tomcat3,Tomcat4,Tomcat41, Tomcat5 and Tomcat55 |
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I do have to admit I think I will be happy with even just 1 Java in |
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Linux since I know it comes from Sun for Linux which I expecting should |
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be of a good quality. Believe it or not but doing a 'cd |
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/usr/ports/java/; ls | grep -c jdk" in FreeBSD returns a count of 15 |
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Java choices, admittedly half of then being the Linux ones for use via |
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the Linux kernel emulation. |
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I installed Gentoo on my laptop with a bit of excitement and was going |
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to start doing some benchmarks and testing with Apache 2.2 and Tomcat |
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5.5 just to find I will have to start manually building it all and |
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manually installing it all my self. |
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My question is does any one have any idea of when Apache projects such |
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as Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2.2 will be in portage? |
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Regards, |
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Mike |
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