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

[Cian Duffy]

Konqueror can interface with IBM Java...

However, many sites that need Java are a bit beyond KHTML, especially
the old version that comes with YDL4.

Cian

On 24/05/05, Geert Janssens <geert.janssens3 at pandora.be> wrote:
> Indeed, that is because the IBM Java release lacks the java plugin that is
> used by all the browsers you named.
> 
> The blackdown port of Java does contain such a plugin for Mozilla compatible
> browsers, but their last PPC version was 1.3.x.
> 
> Most sites for which I require java require a more recent java system to work.
> So on PPC, I'm also stuck for now...
> 
> Geert Jan
> 
> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 17:47, Hex Star wrote:
> > it doesn't work in any of the browsers in my experience however, it
> > seems to be missing a essential part of the JRE the normal JRE has for
> > browser functionality (tried with Konquerer and Opera and Mozilla, all
> > of which were pointed to the Java location or had the included plugin
> > for the browser loaded, however Java applets failed to load, but would
> > load manually outside of browsers in KDE environment)
> >
> > On 5/24/05, emiliano carlesi <emiliano at carlesi.vg> wrote:
> > > i have installed the jvm from ibm and work fine (i do some test and is
> > > very fast !). the package is IBMJava2-142-ppc32-SDK-1.4.2-1.0.ppc.rpm
> > >
> > > ciao
> > >
> > >                  emiliano
> > >
> > > > recieved this message today finally from Sun Microsystems and thought
> > > > you guys might find it interesting
> > > >
> > > > ---------- 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
> > > >
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> > > > -----------------  Report -------------------
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> > > > 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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