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NetBeans 6.0 beta released

The NetBeans 6.0 beta has been released. I gave it a quick test on Ubuntu and it seems wonderful so far.

I loved the local history addition which was a feature I wanted from Eclipse. It seems to have a revamped editor and profiler is now included by default and improved.

On Windows I have Eclipse Europa and NetBeans 5.5.1 installed. For non-GUI Java coding I think that Eclipse is better, the compiler warnings are superb and really helpful.
But think about doing GUI work I think NetBeans has the edge, and now that 6.0 is going to have more Eclipse features that will help me switch.

I very much look forward to the 6.0 final release.

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