Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Jan 2008 22:22 UTC, submitted by Mark Wielaard
Java 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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Speaking of Java
by hussam on Sun 6th Jan 2008 03:26 UTC
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This may be offtopic but speaking of Java, I'm running jdk7b24 and it's a lot faster than jdk6 ever was.