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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Member since:2006-09-30
Java2D folks had already integrated Freetype (via
a pluggable interface, so Sun's JRE can continue
using the proprietary T2K rasterizer, and openjdk-based
can plug-in freetype):
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.build.devel/92
The graphics rasterizer will take longer to replace,
unfortunately.
(Cairo is not exactly a drop-in replacement, although
freetype wasn't either) In fact, we're looking at
other rasterizers.
Dmitri
Member since:
2005-07-06
Yes, and that is exactly what some people are doing right now.