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Subject: Re: I don't like Java....

Author: Kunnar Klauks

Date: 23:13:09 10/05/05

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>It looks like you are using the GNU version of java. It is an incomplete version
>and rarely works. I don't understand why distros bundle that rubbish in their
>distributions. You should download sun's Jre and try using that. Note that

Because for some reason Sun does not allow java distribution in Linux, they made
special licence for java and it forbids it. If you want java for Linux, you must
download it from there website, but bundling java with Linux distros is not
allowed! I personally dont understand why Sun is doing this, maybe they want to
get some edge for their Solraris OS, so only Solaris includes java by default.

But free java has made great progress recently, look for example
http://planet.classpath.org, they have now implemented ~95% java 1.4 class
libraries. Comparision between Sun java and free java are here:
http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-jdk14-classpath.html



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