How much time do you need to assemble and configure a usable java development environment with the regular tools a java developer needs to start coding ? Well, you can cut some time here, by using a Linux LiveCD with Java Tools, just boot it up and your initial java environment is ready to the first javac.

This LiveCD is very useful when:

• Your laptop refuses to work for you ,
• If you did some great overclocking in it
• Want to taste some linux tequila (or Java Cachaca)
• Say bye-bye to malwares and anti-virus who consumes precious CPU clocks

That is the basic spec:

• Debian based
• 2.6.16 kernel
• XFCE 4
• JDK 5
• NetBeans 5
• Tomcat 5.5
• ArgoUML
• MySQL (tools and server)
• Apache Http
• Firefox 1.5.0.4
• OpenOffice 2.0.2
• Planner

This great work was done by Claudio Ferreira Filho (en|pt), leader of BrOffice (OpenOffice Brasil). Thanks Claudio.

Some tips to use this LiveCD:

• There is a debian user, with a blank password
• Networking is DHCP based

To configure the networking settings manually. Suppose the networking settings are:

IP: 192.168.1.10
DNS: 192.168.1.1
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Ethernet interface: eth0

1. Configure the IP

sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10

2. DNS

sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.1.1

3. Gateway

sudo /sbin/route add default gw  192.168.1.1

 http://www.broffice.org/~filhocf/tmp/image.iso 

Please, any comments, rant and suggestion, use the comments form below.