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

[Cian Duffy]

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 <nquintanar at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Java?  We don't need no stinkin' Java!
> 
> <http://www.kaffe.org/>
> 
> --- "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> 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. <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
> > > >
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