Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Sep 2007 21:43 UTC, submitted by Mark Wielaard
Just in time for Fedora 8 test 2 IcedTea has landed in Fedora RawHide. The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from the Sun OpenJDK project using Free Software build tools (gcj) and provides replacements for the non-free binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project. Installing this experimental GPL Java platfom is now as easy as yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea. In addition, Sun has promised to provide a Test Compatibility Kit soon so people can see how 'officially Java' this package really is.
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2005-08-07
Too ignorant to actually read the article, at least... even the summary of the article states the reason this is necessary... "provides replacements for the non-free binary plugs"...