Hi, Your Linux PowerPC JDK Porting Team is pleased to announce JDK 1.1.6 Version 3 for Linux on PowerPC. This release is available from our website and should soon be available on our mirrors: http://business.tyler.wm.edu/mklinux/index.html or for slower connections that don't like java on web pages try http://business.tyler.wm.edu/mklinux/main.html (We have recently had DNS troubles. If you have a problem replace business.tyler.wm.edu with 128.239.101.49) New in this Release ------------------- * This is our v3 port of Sun's JDK 1.1.6 final. - Bad or Missing KeyPressed events are fixed (a Sun bug) - X11GraphicsdrawString multi-thread corruption fix (a Sun bug) - List fix to allow removing item 0 - getlocalhost fix - workaround for Motif bug that causes seg-faults - fix to prevent hanging graphics under fast graphics updates (ala CM3) - turn-on by: export JDK_IO_FIX=true - turn-off by: unset JDK_IO_FIX - fix to allow real non-blocking io on stdin, stderr, stdout (a Sun bug) - fix for Finalizer thread caused deadlocks (a Sun bug) - fix for JNI problems with egcs -O2 - fix for frame borders / sizing (a Sun bug) - fix for offset menus when using Swing - fix for non-resizable frames (a Sun bug) - fix for signal names in java stack/thread dump Also available on this site are: - Metrowerks supplied JIT for Linux PowerPC - HotJava Browser 1.1.4 - Swing 1.0.3 Have Fun! Kevin --- This system is powered by the Mercere mailing list suite --- http://www.oeil.qc.ca/Mercere/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin B. Hendricks Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology School of Business, College of William & Mary, 307 Tyler Hall, P.O.Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 (757) 221-1702, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://business.tyler.wm.edu
