http://www.osnews.com/story/18800/GNU_Classpath_0_96_IcedTea_1_4_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:54:11 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?279643 http://osnews.com/thread?279643 I tried to get this going on Gentoo without much success. I'll have to give it another go now that new versions have been released. Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (abraxas) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?279648 http://osnews.com/thread?279648 The other day I found for the first time in many years a irc java applet in a web....and gcj/classhpath loaded it just fine thanks to the gcjwebplugin package. Classpath is just amazing. Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diegocg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?279649 http://osnews.com/thread?279649 I grabbed an iso of Gobuntu and installed it a few days ago. Went to the usual java.sun.com, and was prompted to install either the Sun jre or IcedTea. I gave the free-software choice, and found that the National Weather Service storm radar java loop now works, and a game site I now use also runs java games quite well. Good on 'em! Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (egon_spengler) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?279656 http://osnews.com/thread?279656 iced tea = (%100 Sun Java - %2 encumbered code ) + ( %2 code form classpath and some other places ) + a different repository

IMO, iced tea is ok for now. But i believe Sun has entered last phase of changing the project structure and repository system for open jdk. Plus they already covered many of the encumbered code (with the help of community). once it is finished, i think iced tea will be more like a duplicated effort. if they continue doing it, i will see it more of a publicity effort for RedHat than actual community contribution to Open JDK. Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ahmetaa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?279658 http://osnews.com/thread?279658 On Fedora it is easy to get. You just pull up a shell and type 'yum install icedtea' I use it with Limewire and it works okay. Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?279664 http://osnews.com/thread?279664 The news talk about Debian. I couldn't find IcedTea packages for Debian. Does someone know where i can find Debian packages? If possible for stable (Etch). Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pinky) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?279754 http://osnews.com/thread?279754 http://people.debian.org/~mkoch/java/

Debs are available here Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lord_rob) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280054 http://osnews.com/thread?280054 Understand that IceTea is a temporairy solution until OpenJDK is totally unencumbered of patented code. Given the circumstance (Acacia patent lawsuit agaisnt Red Hat), the Fedora community cannot afford to take a risk of lawsuit from another obscure patent troll.Edited 2007-10-23 07:11 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Finalzone) Comments