Eclipse M7
By Adrian Sutton
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.