> Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .....According to my packages > file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2...... Sun recently released > ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze)...... > Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any stable versions > for linux beyond 1.0.2, or because the package hasn't been updated, or what? > > Thanx, > Timothy
Hi. First, regarding your question about netscape. Check out ftp://ftp.netscape.com for more recent versions. 4.0.x is available for quite some time already. As for JDK, JDK 1.1.3 is available as a debian package in hamm/non-free (It can be safely installed on your stable system). If you want to use both 1.0.2 and 1.1.3 simultaneously, I would recommend downloading 1.1.3 directly from http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html The latest stable release of JDK from Sun is 1.1.5 and it _is_ available for Linux at ftp://lagrange.la.asu.edu/pub/Linux_jdk/JDK-1.1.5/ This port is by a different person (Sergey Nikitin) than 1.1.3 and franckly, I would not recommend using it because it is compiled against glibc2 (libc6) while Motif libraries that are currently available are still libc5 based. And dependence on both libc5 and libc6 of the same binary is not a good idea. Yes, Sun released JDK 1.2 beta2 recently for Solaris and Windows. To start working on Linux port we need to have a source code of the release which is not available (yet). Previous Sun's practice shows that the source would be available only after full (not beta) release. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +-------------------------------------------+ | _ 7 | Alexander Yukhimets | \ (") | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +-------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .