Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Jan 2008 22:22 UTC, submitted by Mark Wielaard
The IcedTea project added a PowerPC Java port (both 32 and 64 bit) of OpenJDK. IcedTea 1.5 now also tracks the mercurial repo, provides better GNU/Linux integration by using standard system libraries (libpng, libjpeg, zlib, giflib) and can be bootstrapped with the free gcj/ecj/classpath toolchain. OpenJDK just accepted a new porters group and Gary Benson wrote a guide to porting IcedTea that might be the start of a lot of other Java ports.
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Perhaps this is the first step towards getting Java running on a PS3? The moment Java runs reasonably on a PS3 is the moment I go out and buy one immediately. I'm a big believer in playing board games as a family/group of friends but squabbling over rules, missing pieces, and lengthy dice rolls really bogs things down... but if I could just write the games myself then and we could play them on the big screen that would help a lot! This almost made me want to go learn C# and buy an XBox360... but through OSS I might not have to!
* Though I have thought about trying to see if I could just X11 the PS3 from a x86 box running Java.