On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 18:16 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > Finally we have an opensource, free, alternative java platform available > that's compatible to the official Sun JDK. Our OpenJDK6 package is based > on a mercurial checkout of icedtea6 and is built with the latest Sun > OpenJDK GPL'ed sources. > OpenJDK comes with Java Web Start and a native browser plugin for both > i686 and x86_64. > We would like to make openjdk6 our default java enviornment and > deprecate any use of gcc-gcj/java-gcj-compat, except for the packages > required to build openjdk6. > Please give openjdk6 some testing and report bugs when you find them. > Hi,
Wanted to comment, that I just recently started classes at the University and some of my classes are online. The online site the univ relies on is heavily dependant on java. I logged in today and it worked but most of the site was useless, until I changed back to jre from repo. So i guess this openjdk6 package should not move to extra anytime soon until it is mature enough. Or maybe we can have both jre/jdk and oepnjdk6 in repo. I'm not sure if you guys already decided anything on it, but just writting to inform you of my experiences. Thanks Eduardo "kensai" Romero
