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

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

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. <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> 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
> > yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general
> > HINT: to Google archives, try  '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
> > 
> 
> 
-- 
joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net