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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