Fwd: (Incident Review ID: 403998) GETJAVA: comment: JRE for YellowDog Linux community

[Hex Star]

(Note that it took them at least a month to reply to this request for support)

On 5/24/05, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
> ah ok yeah I'll reply to them and tell them that, will forward to the
> list any reply
> 
> On 5/24/05, Geert Janssens <geert.janssens3 at pandora.be> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 16:30, Hex Star wrote:
> > > recieved this message today finally from Sun Microsystems and thought
> > > you guys might find it interesting
> > >
> > Dear Mr Hex Star,
> >
> > Have you verified the solution proposed by Sun ?
> >
> > I haven't, but on the website they refer to, I only find a binary tar or rpm
> > package that can be installed on Intel or Amd equiped PC's. I doubt it very
> > much that this can be installed let alone be run on YDL PPC.
> >
> > I don't think the good folks at Sun tried very hard to figure out what
> > Yellowdog Linux was all about, especially that is runs on PPC only.
> >
> > Maybe, you could explicitly mention that to them in a reply to your incident.
> >
> > Then I'd like to see Sun's reaction. Chances are it will be total silence...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Geert
> >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Sun Microsystems <IncidentUpdateDaemon at sun.com>
> > > Date: May 23, 2005 11:52 PM
> > > Subject: Re: (Incident Review ID: 403998) GETJAVA: comment:  JRE for
> > > YellowDog Linux community
> > > To: hexstar at gmail.com
> > >
> > >
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> > > Hi John Musbach,
> > >
> > > Thank you very much for your interest in Java(TM) technology. We
> > > apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
> > >
> > > We haven't received many requests for JRE for YellowDog Linux.
> > > Although we haven't tested, yet the existing version should work fow
> > > this platform too.
> > >
> > > Can you try to download/install the existing JRE version for Linux from:
> > > http://java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml
> > >
> > > We hope that you find this information useful. Thank you very much for
> > > contacting Sun Microsystems.
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> > >
> > > -----------------  Report -------------------
> > >
> > > category : getjava
> > > release : 5.0
> > > subcategory : comment
> > > type : bug
> > > synopsis : GETJAVA: comment:  JRE for YellowDog Linux community
> > > description : FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
> > > N/A
> > >
> > > FULL OS VERSION :
> > > YellowDog Linux4.0 PPC
> > >
> > > BROWSER VERSION:
> > > Opera 7.54 u1
> > >
> > > A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
> > > Dear Sir or Maddam,
> > >
> > > I'd love to use Java on my platform but unfortunetly it isn't open
> > > source nor is there a build for my linux distro of YellowDog Linux
> > > (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com) :-(. So I was wondering, if I give you
> > > guys secure ssh access could you please build Java for my platform? Me
> > > and the rest of the YellowDog Linux community would greatly appreciate
> > > it. My email address is hexstar at gmail.com, I look forward to hearing
> > > back from you.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > John Musbach
> > > workaround :
> > > suggested_val :
> > > cust_name : John Musbach
> > > cust_email : hexstar at gmail.com
> > > jdcid :
> > > language : English
> > > keyword : getjava
> > > company : other
> > > hardware : x86
> > > OSversion : linux
> > > bugtraqID : 0
> > > dateCreated : 2005-02-23 13:06:38.8
> > > dateEvaluated : 2005-05-24 00:42:51.124
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