begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:42:51AM -0800: > Gus Wirth wrote: > >It already comes with Fedora 8. It's called Iced Tea. > ><http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IcedTea>. It's not exactly the > >same, but works for providing Java for projects like Open Office. > > That's nice but so far Iced Tea hasn't run the java browser applets that > I have needed nor will it run Limewire or various other things. I keep > hearing that Sun's Java is FOSS so I'm wondering why, if this is true, > that we haven't seen it bundled with a distro yet.
They're still working out how to splatter the files all across the system. Having the whole JDK in one subdirectory offends their sensibilities. -- In /opt/tools/java/jdk1.6 is where it tends to get put Just in case I get annoyed and want to apply the foot. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
