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:2005-07-06
Iced Tea was created by Red Hat which was developed in Fedora 7 and Fedora 7 packages were available within a few days though other distributions might have packaged it in their development repository earlier. That would be less work than bootstrapping the code.
Since Iced Tea was not available for PPC architecture and Fedora is about to expand it's architecture support in the next release, there were some concerns about how that would pan out and the current decision is to continue using gcj in those architectures.
Perhaps the more important news here is about TCK compatibility.
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-07-06
been in Mandriva Cooker since June 30th. Ubuntu announced it last week, dunno how long it's been in there.