http://www.osnews.com/story/19105/IcedTea_1_5_Adds_PowerPC_Java_Port Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:52:43 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?294154 http://www.osnews.com/thread?294154 The more platforms it runs on, the the more people will run it. The more peple that run it, the better chance that bugs in closed source software as well as icedTea itself will be fixed. Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (unoengborg) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?294156 http://www.osnews.com/thread?294156 I still haven't had success building IcedTea on Gentoo but I keep trying. I think my issues are related to running in a hardened environment but I haven't figured out what exactly is causing my build failures. With more people working on IcedTea now that it is ported I'm hoping these bugs will be resolved. Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (abraxas) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?294158 http://www.osnews.com/thread?294158 Try Fedora 8. Fedora 8 provide IcedTea.
Btw, Red Hat/Fedora has done most of the improvement in IcedTea.

But F8 does not offer IcedTea for ppc. Wait for F9 (or try RawHide). Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (superman) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?294164 http://www.osnews.com/thread?294164 I have a 64-bit Intel machine so I'm not worried about PPC. As for Fedora, I'm not ready to ditch my beloved Gentoo just for IcedTea although I am a former RedHat user. Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (abraxas) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?294191 http://www.osnews.com/thread?294191 This is so great. Kudos to RH. Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (benja) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?294204 http://www.osnews.com/thread?294204 It might be of interest to prospective linux users on the PPC architecture, that IBM offers a Java environment for Linux/PPC that works just as well as Sun's one.
No browser plugin ships with it though, so my advice is to run Opera, that uses directly the JVM and not the plugin. This applies to Java on x86_64 too.

Nonetheless, it's great to see this new technology come forward, along with the great improvements in Gnash and Swfdec, the linux/PPC desktop is starting to look like a good alternative for those iBook G3 orphaned by Leopard! Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jack Malmostoso) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?294253 http://www.osnews.com/thread?294253 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. Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CaptainPinko) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?294255 http://www.osnews.com/thread?294255 The IBM JVM should run fine on a PS3. Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?294524 http://www.osnews.com/thread?294524 This may be offtopic but speaking of Java, I'm running jdk7b24 and it's a lot faster than jdk6 ever was. Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hussam) Comments