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Alright this is a review. An l-user's review (ugh! l - linux )
I do not own the trademark Fedora which belongs to Redhat .. blah blah blah..

The first cut review of the desktop of Fedora Core 3 from an average Java Developer's perspective.
Sitting on a borrowed desktop this weekend. This is sure making me jealous. A 64 bit AMD machine with a 32 bit version of Fedora Core 3 running on it. With TFT display and Bose speakers.

Fedora Core 3 seems to have finally made it to the stability level of say a RH 9 or a RH 7.3 or a patched and updated Mandrake 10.
I log into the default desktop (GNOME.. nah! I am a KDE user).
Get myself the customary(!) sudo access to root shell. Open a nice looking terminal by right clicking on the desktop and

#cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)

I wish debian based distro's start using the above convention too. ( don't pick up the chainsaw yet)
$java -version
java version "1.4.2"
jdkgcj 0.3.1 (http://www.arklinux.org/projects/jdkgcj)
gcj (GCC) 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Its finally there. Despite this notice of non-fitness I suspect it can be usable.

$javac -version
Eclipse Java Compiler 0.319_R21x, Copyright IBM Corp 2000-2003. All rights reserved.

This looks promising. Will I have a fully Open Source Java stack now.
( for the FSF-ish types .. would I be less sinful now .. but I still develop/help develop proprietary software )

#locate tomcat
#which ant

Hey! where's tomcat and ant. Thats cheating FC2 had them.
Alright lets get it installed.

Clicked on the blue globe with mouse icon ( my Mozilla .. )
And thus opened up Mozilla Firefox 1.0.
The htmlview %u script which is the icon on desktop's for the browser has changed finally to firefox. FC3++.

Download Ant
cd $HOME ( Firefox promised me it downloads the stuff on Desktop by default but it seems to have dumped it on $HOME).
Clicked it on it again to download it. Saves apache-ant-2.6.2-bin.tar.gz for me in the $HOME.

Does it look like a new bug. If they are still offering money for finding bugs you may want to report it.

$md5sum apache-ant-1.6.2-bin.tar.gz
Look it up on the Apache's Main Site.
$sudo -s
#su -
( Getting my root shell with environment )
#cd /usr/local

#tar -zxvf ~tarundua/apache-ant-1.6.2-bin.tar.gz
#ln -s apache-ant-1.6.2 ant
#echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ant/bin' >> /etc/rc.local
#source /etc/rc.local
#which ant
/usr/local/ant/bin/ant
Thats it.

Download Tomcat 5.5.4. Compare the md5sum.
#tar -zxvf ~tarundua/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.4.tar.gz
#ln -s jakarta-tomcat-5.5.4 tomcat
#echo 'export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat' >> /etc/rc.local
#echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$CATALINA_HOME/bin' >> /etc/rc.local
#source /etc/rc.local
#catalina.sh
The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program
NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE
#export JAVA_HOME=/usr
#catalina.sh
The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program
NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE

Time to install the "non-free" JDK.

A different point GCJ based Tomcat in Fedora - avoid it

To complete the setup. Download JDK for Linux from sun's site. Install it in /usr/local and create a symbolic link java to the installed directory and export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
Note the use of $JAVA_HOME/bin before $PATH to help avoid the pre-installed JVM.