Danese Cooper: So...I’m wondering how long it will take the various Linux distros to figure out that they can ship Harmony (as they ship Apache) pre-installed and ready to use (even while they continue to put Sun’s JRE in the “non-free” directory, where its still two clicks away from users).
The question isn’t whether there will be a fully-compatible implementation of J2SE 5.0 under an OSI license in two or three JavaOne’s from now; but rather one of how many, fully-compatible, implementations of J2SE 5.0, under an OSI license, there will be; and whether any of them will be ready by the next JavaOne.
The sun-java5-jdk is more than two clicks away. And there is an additional click-through license agreement. Clearly, that won’t stop users from installing it. But it will stop developers from depending on it being there.
Developers like the ones working on Open Office.
Heh, but they already are.
popcon.debian.org/by_vote [link]
#rank name inst vote old recent no-files (maintainer)
615 gij-4.0 3931 1231 1213 1485 2 (Debian Gcc Maintainers)
741 kaffe-pthreads 3699 950 860 1888 1 (Debian Java Maintainers)
839 sun-j2sdk1.5 1176 811 311 51 3 (Not in sid)
920 j2re1.4 1059 698 307 43 11 (Not in sid)
1091 sun-j2re1.5 808 550 179 76 3 (Not in sid)
cheers,
dalibor topic
After installation:
rubys@rubypad:~$ update-alternatives --display java java - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-4.0 - priority 40 slave rmiregistry: /usr/bin/grmiregistry-4.0 slave rmiregistry.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/grmiregistry-4.0.1.gz slave java.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/gij-wrapper-4.0.1.gz /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java - priority 1040 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/java.1.gz /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java - priority 53 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.06/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java.