Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Jun 2008 20:28 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Back in May 2006, Sun announced during the JavaOne conference it would release Java as open source, licensed as GPL software. While it was released as GPL, it still contained about 5 percent proprietary, non-free code - the Java trap, as the FSF calls it. The FSF called to dismantle this trap, and now the IcedTea project has reached an important milestone.
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2006-01-03
Rellay nice. Now OpenJDK is a viable alternative, at least for desktop use.
For server use, I think that not implementing snmp is going to kill the usefulness of OpenJDK Linux integration.
How do you monitor (through Nagios) something that has no SNMP implementation?
On a side note, OpenJDK 1.6 works correctly with Compiz and Fusion, where the sun 1.6 showd the gray window bug. This should be a bug fix backported from Sun Java 1.7