Ubuntu 8.10 Turns To OpenJDK 6

[Zhick]

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

There is already a open plugin based on the OpenJDK. It's called IcedTea. Look at http://iced-tea.org/wiki/Main_Page for information. Im using it on Gentoo x86_64 and it's worked very well so far, without any proprietary software needed.

@Kano: Are you reffering to IcedTea or one of the older free Java-replacements? Afaik IcedTea should be fully compatible. Maybe you'd tell us what sites you've got problems with?

[Kano]

Try the games in

http://www.spin.de/

Also with Java 1.5 or newer (it works with 1.4.2!) you can try this:

http://www.radiogong.de/fileadmin/chat/

You can open private dialogs, but you are unable to close em. Very stupid bug...

[Zhick]

Try the games in

http://www.spin.de/

The games wont start for me. It complains about java missing. Weird.

Also with Java 1.5 or newer (it works with 1.4.2!) you can try this:

http://www.radiogong.de/fileadmin/chat/

You can open private dialogs, but you are unable to close em. Very stupid bug...

I get that as well. That's probably due to the applet doing weird stuff it isn't supposed to do.

[krzta]

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

Maybe one day it will make sense...
It's been bundled already and unfortunately mostly useless. It was the very first thing I replaced after the fresh hardy install.

[Kano]

@Zhick

both works with 1.4.2, the spin chat games work with 1.5 and 1.6 too. Btw. the radio gong chat works with win, so it is a Linux only problem...