D vs Java [OT: Ubuntu]

[Dave]

In article <dvpatk$mtg$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Lucas Goss says...
>
>Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> 31b     hello.sh (script)
>> Hello, World!
>>         0.01 real         0.00 user         0.00 sys
>> ...
>
>Hmm, sounds like fun. Same tests for bourne shell, C, C++, and D (GDC) 
>on linux x86 (ubuntu dapper)
>
>code    size     real    user    sys
>sh      31b      0.016   0.010   0.006
>                  0.017   0.007   0.009
>                  0.018   0.011   0.006
>
>C       6.8K     0.003   0.002   0.000
>                  0.003   0.000   0.002
>                  0.003   0.000   0.002
>
>C++     8.3K     0.127   0.005   0.001
>                  0.007   0.003   0.003
>                  0.006   0.001   0.004
>
>GDC   426.5K     0.014   0.002   0.002
>                  0.004   0.001   0.002
>                  0.005   0.002   0.003
>
>I kinda wonder how dmd does? I would have tried it but it links to 
>libstdc++.so.5, currently I have libstdc++.so.6 and didn't feel like 
>installing the old libstdc++ on this machine (I have others with older 
>versions that run dmd).

How do you like Ubuntu, say, compared to Fedora Core 4 if you've used that?

(I'm past the stage where I want to compile kernel modules, etc. to install a
*nix system, so how is the setup routine?).

Thanks,

- Dave