After a long await, finally java can be redistributed with GNU/LINUX distros. Now Nepalinux might be releasing it's next version with java. Till date some of the functions in OpenOffice.org, open office suite, required downloading the jre to use them, which has been overcomed by the ok signal.
Sun's Chief Open Source Simon Phiipps says:
The nightmare that was installing the Java platform on GNU/Linux is over. As of right now, there is a Debian package Java on GNU/Linux. You can apt-get install sun-java-jdk and it actually works. Same on Ubuntu. Same on Gentoo Linux. I gather that Novell and Suse are endorsing this as well. Finally, the relicensing has happened so that Java is present on the Linux that is being used by most people in the two-thirds world….. [Red Hat] already have Java in their distribution up to a point. We did ask them if they wanted to be involved here and they decided that they would pass this opportunity. I think probably because they are busy tied-up committing themselves to Java anyway. They just bought this app server company apparently so there's really no question of Red Hat's commitment to Java because the profitability of JBoss depends on it.
Sun's Chief Open Source Simon Phiipps says:
The nightmare that was installing the Java platform on GNU/Linux is over. As of right now, there is a Debian package Java on GNU/Linux. You can apt-get install sun-java-jdk and it actually works. Same on Ubuntu. Same on Gentoo Linux. I gather that Novell and Suse are endorsing this as well. Finally, the relicensing has happened so that Java is present on the Linux that is being used by most people in the two-thirds world….. [Red Hat] already have Java in their distribution up to a point. We did ask them if they wanted to be involved here and they decided that they would pass this opportunity. I think probably because they are busy tied-up committing themselves to Java anyway. They just bought this app server company apparently so there's really no question of Red Hat's commitment to Java because the profitability of JBoss depends on it.
3 comments:
How can open source software be used in swimming pools and health clubs?
where is the snazzle dazzle?
what happened to teh computational power of the shiznits in biznits? no forget iran man...
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