SJS wrote:
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.
Really? The official Sun JDK that comes as an RPM (inside the license
wrapper) puts everything under a single directory: /usr/java/ except for
a few config files in /etc/.java
Why the hidden .java I don't know.
Gus
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