i am new to this thread. can someone quickly bring me up to date about my
otions for running java on redhat 5.1?
Blackdown and Open Group sound familiar but which can i use and how far
behind Sun's jdk are they?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernd Kreimeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, August 23, 1998 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: "Open" Group port/Invocation dumps core
>
>Ignore if you couldn't care less about "To Diff Or Not..".
>----------------------------------------------------------
>
> > The Open Group has its own business realities to deal with.
> > Your demand -- that they adopt your favorite business model
> > for sharing source -- seems an awfully harsh one for judging
> > the merit of their efforts. And is it necessarily the fastest
> > or surest way of solving your problems?
>
>I am not making a demand. The togri_thread v1 port brings
>me back to where I was some dozen of Debian/RedHat/glibc/libc5
>installs ago, when Blackdown/SBB and SN 1.1.3/1.1.5/1.1.6 JDK,
>too, failed the simple tests I mentioned above. I do not
>have the option to get into yet another "submit bug report-wait"
>loop.
>
>Blackdown is trying to maintain a Linux JDK port as open as
>possible given SMI restrictions, as efficient as possible
>given that SMI does not maintain a "genunix/linux" codebase,
>only a "solaris" one.
>
>The Blackdown diffs (along with the JDK source) also enable
>me to track bugs in a more direct manner (at least in theory).
>
>I do not know what OG tries to sell, but there are basically
>two possibilities:
>
> a) they are smart enough to use the diffs published by
> Blackdown to bring their "product" up to speed
>
> b) they ignore those diffs to make sure they "own"
> something ultimately owned by SMI already
>
>In both cases their biz model seems to get in the way of
>efficiency. I am not going as far as Linus stating something
>like "Java is Dead", but for my particular application
>neither the noble efforts of Blackdown nor the possibly noble
>but not as noble efforts of "Open" Group provided me with
>a minimal *development* environment on Linux (not even
>talking about production release). From over here it doesn't
>look like the current state of Java in general, and Linux
>Java in particular, warrants concerns about business on the
>level of "Hide My Patch". IMO and all.
>
>
> b.
>
>
>
