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phoronix
10-15-2008, 12:40 PM
Phoronix: IcedTea 1.3 Picks Up New Features, Support

Back during JavaOne 2007, Sun Microsystems had released the fully open-source OpenJDK that effectively made Java a free software language. Just weeks after that Red Hat announced the IcedTea project...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Njc4Nw
ethana2
10-15-2008, 01:58 PM
So, the hi-games.net typing test won't be broken in 8.10?

Like, does it handle fixed-width fonts correctly?
Louise
10-15-2008, 02:00 PM
It is great that Java now can be distributed with Linux, but I really look forward to the day where the Java browser plugin also is distributed with Linux.

The last thing I read was, that Sun was not going to open source the plugin =(
deanjo
10-15-2008, 02:03 PM
It is great that Java now can be distributed with Linux, but I really look forward to the day where the Java browser plugin also is distributed with Linux.

The last thing I read was, that Sun was not going to open source the plugin =(

icedtea already has a browser plugin in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.
Louise
10-15-2008, 02:10 PM
icedtea already has a browser plugin in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.

Interesting!

Does it work just a well the one that comes with the closed source Java?
deanjo
10-15-2008, 02:14 PM
Interesting!

Does it work just a well the one that comes with the closed source Java?

Works fine for me. I haven't come across any sites that it wouldn't work in my regular travels.
Louise
10-15-2008, 02:22 PM
Works fine for me. I haven't come across any sites that it wouldn't work in my regular travels.

Great! =)

What packages did you install so you got the plugin?
deanjo
10-15-2008, 02:38 PM
Great! =)

What packages did you install so you got the plugin?

Well on openSUSE the packages is called icedtea-plugin. What it is called on other distro's I have no idea.
Louise
10-15-2008, 02:46 PM
Well on openSUSE the packages is called icedtea-plugin. What it is called on other distro's I have no idea.

Thanks. I am using Fedora, so they probably also split it into a separate package.

I'll search for plugin, and see what comes up =)
miles
10-15-2008, 03:44 PM
Does it work just a well the one that comes with the closed source Java?

No,even though it's improving. Try http://www.goproblems.com/prob.php3?nutrial=1&plevel=0 for example... with really recent releases you can go a bit further than before but it won't allow you to go to the next page once the problem is solved. However for amd64 that's the only game in town since Sun never released a 64 bit Java plugin.
Louise
10-15-2008, 05:22 PM
No,even though it's improving. Try http://www.goproblems.com/prob.php3?nutrial=1&plevel=0 for example... with really recent releases you can go a bit further than before but it won't allow you to go to the next page once the problem is solved. However for amd64 that's the only game in town since Sun never released a 64 bit Java plugin.

Wow! That thing crashed Firefox before I could see the page. And I use the closed source version right now!

But I'll bookmark it, and try it with Fedora 10.

If just my webbank worked, I guess I wouldn't care about the rest =)