Hi there,

I'm doing Java development using IntelliJ IDEA with Java JDK 1.4.1_02 (from
Sun, not Blackdown) under Red Hat Linux 9.

I started using Linux a lloonngg time ago (Slackware 2.xx in something like
1995) and never went back to DOS / Windows (I do work on Mac too though).

Then I used Debian Gnu/Linux for some time (version 1.3 or something if I
remember correctly).

Then I used Red Hat Linux, for whatever reason.

I like Red Hat Linux 9 (though it's a "newbie" style Distro - please don't
flame me), but I'm experiencing a really frustrating problem : system sometimes
hangs for a few seconds with no apparent reason. I tried the latest RH9 kernel,
same problem.

Several RH9 users have the same problem and I know that some solved it by
switching to Gentoo !

I'm willing to do the switch, this "emerge world" thing sure do look sexy
amongst other niceties

This is for a development machine, not a production one, so it's not a problem
(don't flame me on this either ).

But I'd like to know if anybody has already installed IntelliJ IDEA and Tomcat
on a Gentoo system ?

Does the "official" Java JDK 1.4.1_02 (or newer, though IntelliJ IDEA doesn't
seem to work for the moment with JDK 1.4.2 !?) from Sun works flawlessly on
a Gentoo system ?

And, last but not least, does Gentoo use NPTL (Native Posix Threads Library) ?

Bah, I may try Gentoo anyway even if nobody answers

Thanks in advance for your answers,

Jean