begin quoting Gus Wirth as of Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:59:13PM -0800: > 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?
Um, no, I was speculating. And ascribing uncharitable motives to RedHat. > 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 This is the one downloaded from java.sun.com? > Why the hidden .java I don't know. To be charitable, I'd guess that /etc is getting so full that they'd figure they'd want to avoid adding to the mess. I'd bet a nickel that you could delete /etc/.java and everything would still work. ....hmmm... I did the debian-install-trick, and lo! I, too, have a .java in /etc/, and it contains a .systemPrefs dir. I bet this has to do with the "Java Preferences" capability. They tried building a preferences system, with per-user and per-system preferences. I've looked at it a bit, but I don't use it; I prefer configuration files that I specify to the program, rather than one preference file for all programs. -- Smart people can be also be dumb Just give 'em a hammer and a thumb Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
