But do you need or use OpenOffice? Or filesharing apps (Azuerus and Limewire are among the best for, uhh... downloading ISO's. Yeah...)?
They need Sun's JVM. Cian On 24/05/05, Norberto Quintanar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All that may be true. But I don't miss it. I don't need or use any > development tools i.e netbeans or eclipse. And from Kaffe's website. > > "Kaffe is not the best Java virtual machine for developing Java > applications, as it lacks much in the way of documentation, > compatibility, debugging/profiling support, etc. If you are learning > Java, or are looking for a complete Java development environment, you > will probably be best served by using a "real" Java development > environment (such as the JDK) licensed from Sun." > > Which would bring you to the current state of affairs. > Kaffe works great for what I use it for, surfing the web. > > --- Cian Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As someone who has fought with open JVM's for years on my other OS > > (BeOS), I can tell you that you -NEED- Sun's JVM. Even GCJ in GCC4 > > barely cuts it, and when its YDL moving to GCC4? > > > > OpenOffice2 doesn't support Kaffe. I doubt Eclipse does, or > > NetBeans. > > Or any major Java app, for that matter. > > > > OpenOffice 2.x, which is a wonderful application, will depend on > > GCC4's GCJ or Sun Java to run on YDL4. Thats a major app to lose > > out > > on due to a lack of Java. > > > > Cian > > > > On 24/05/05, Norberto Quintanar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Java? We don't need no stinkin' Java! > > > > > > <http://www.kaffe.org/> > > > > > > --- "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Cian, > > > > > > > > Good idea... > > > > > > > > Owen, what do you think? > > > > > > > > > > > > -Joseph > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================== > > > > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 17:01 +0100, Cian Duffy wrote: > > > > > Sun are unlikely to port it themselves. Java on Linux was for > > > > many > > > > > years provided by Blackdown, official Sun Java on FreeBSD is > > > > provided > > > > > by the FreeBSD project, and so on. > > > > > > > > > > An experienced coder/coding team can approach Sun and get the > > > > full > > > > > source code under NDA to port the JVM/JRE, including the > > HotSpot > > > > VM. > > > > > Sun won't port it themselves. In YDL's case, someone from > > > > Terrasoft > > > > > would be best, or someone that TSS are willing to vouch for. > > > > > > > > > > Cian > > > > > > > > > > On 24/05/05, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > "We" do appreciate the effort. If SUN were to offer JAVA > > for > > > > linuxPPC's > > > > > > that would run on 32-bit & 64-bit PPC's, that would be > > great. > > > > > > > > > > > > -Joseph > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > =============================================================================== > > > > > > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 08:14 -0700, Hex Star wrote: > > > > > > > (Note that it took them at least a month to reply to this > > > > request for support) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > > > > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > > > > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > > > > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Yahoo! 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