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

Author: Kunnar Klauks

Date: 08:34:50 10/07/05

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On October 07, 2005 at 10:44:14, Martin Andersen2 wrote:

>On October 07, 2005 at 08:50:51, Kunnar Klauks wrote:
>
>
>>Really???
>>
>>Just after reading your post here i open Slashdot, and what did i find in first
>>page?
>>
>>Read this:
>>http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/10/06/2157223.shtml?tid=143&tid=106
>>
>> O0o0Oblubb!O0o0O writes "Today, Novell released SuSE 10.0 OSS for download.
>>Product highlights include kernel 2.6.13, gcc 4.0.2, glibc 2.3.5, improved boot
>>times and Xen 3. Torrents are available for the i386, ppc and x86_64 versions.
>>The downloadable OSS edition lacks some packages for licensing reasons of which
>>some, like Java, can be installed via package repository."
>>
>>
>>As you can see, licencing issues mentioned, and java missing in default install
>>because of that. Thats the point, a reason why distros distribute gnu java
>>instead official Sun java, and i dont blame them at all.
>>
>I believe that your are mistaken. I also read Slashdot :-)
>
>There are two releases of SUSE 10, one open source release mentioned
>in the Slashdot article (Suse 10.0 OSS), and the "Released version".
>Read about it here:
>http://www.opensuse.org/Download
>
>and here:
>http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/commercial.html
>

No not mistaken at all. I knew that. Fact is, that in free linux distributions
java is missing because of licence issues.

Kunar



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