Ubuntu 8.10 Turns To OpenJDK 6

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 8.10 Turns To OpenJDK 6

For those of you interested in open-source Java and are Ubuntu users, you'll be pleased to know that OpenJDK 6 was promoted to Ubuntu main and has now become the default Java Run-Time Environment (JRE) and Java Development Kit (JDK) starting with Ubuntu 8.10. OpenJDK is the open-source version of Java and is compliant with version 6 of Java...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjYzMQ

[mirza]

Off-topic, but where is Intel X4500 graphics performance test we were promised?

[deanjo]

Off-topic, but where is Intel X4500 graphics performance test we were promised?

Why would you post such a question on such an unrelated topic. There are other forums for questions like those. Don't be lazy and start a new thread instead of tacking on useless comments on unrelated posts.

[Michael]

Off-topic, but where is Intel X4500 graphics performance test we were promised?

Tomorrow or Friday... testing has completed its just a matter of when we decide to publish it.

[aaaantoine]

On-topic: Is this based in any way on Sun's Java source code? Changes like these have a tendency to break things.

[Louise]

I use Fedora 9 and I was disappointed when I found out, that OpenJDK doesn't include the Java plugin for Firefox.

Read: you will still have to download Sun's Java

[Kano]

Well there is an open plugin, it just does not work with the websites I use. Until a website requires Java 1.5/1.6 the best to use is still 1.4.2 for Linux.

[Louise]

Do you know if there are plans on open sourcing the plugin also?

[wiscados]

The OpenJDK is now the same as Sun's JDK. ( http://twit.tv/floss33 )
Also, I'd like to see gnash bundled with Ubuntu soon.

[bugmenot]

On-topic: Is this based in any way on Sun's Java source code?

Yep, openJDK is 95% or so original sun java source code...

Also, I'd like to see gnash bundled with Ubuntu soon.

Isn't gnash in ubuntu for a few releases yet?