I am currently running a large distributed Java system on Windows.
What are benefits of moving to Linux - from a Java point of view?
One I can think of is being able to run 'services' natively. At the moment I have to log in to the Windows box and start the Java program.
Are there performance gains, etc.?
There are no major Java-specific advantages, the JVMs are pretty much the same.
You get the usual advantages of having a Unix-like operating system however. Many of those advantages boil down to familiarity or re-usability however, since Windows has slowly caught up with many of those:
One potential benefit, the windows timer can be problematic (you can find many posts via google around this issue).
One good resource here.
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