Star Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Oct 2007 12:08 UTC
Mac OS X Today, Apple is unleashing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard onto the world. It's already available to people in Australia and New Zealand (you liking it, Kaiwai?), and Europe and the US will follow later today. There's an article on what's new for Ruby developers, while others want to figure out what Leopard means to the 'enterprise' (I love those silly business terms). Update by AS: My copy of Leopard was slated for a 10AM delivery, but didn't arrive. I called FedEx and a CSR told me that an internal memo was just released; Apple has apparently waved the shipping deadline for all packages today and requested delivery be rescheduled at the end of the business day. Update 2 by AS: Ok, we've received our copy. How about you other US'ers?
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RE: where's java 6?
by Jonix on Fri 26th Oct 2007 13:04 UTC in reply to "where's java 6?"
Jonix
Member since:
2007-02-14

I was thinking about your comment about bad Java support out of the box. I started thinking which operating system that includes Java.

Windows don't include any version of Java, so far I know.

Most Linux distributions does not include Java out of the box, because legal reason. This will change very quickly now when Java has been GPL:ed

Mac OSX includes Java out of the box, perhaps not the latest version.

It is fairly easy to install the latest Java (JRE and JVM) on all the above mentioned systems.

So I'm a bit curious about which operating systems you are running now, so may I humbly ask what OS you are running?

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RE[2]: where's java 6?
by MattGS on Fri 26th Oct 2007 13:28 in reply to "RE: where's java 6?"
MattGS Member since:
2005-08-22

I hope someone proves me wrong but I think there just isn't any kind of Java 6 for Mac. So it's not a question of Java being bundled with the system but the availability of Java 6 for Mac.

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RE[2]: where's java 6?
by thebluesgnr on Fri 26th Oct 2007 13:38 in reply to "RE: where's java 6?"
thebluesgnr Member since:
2005-11-14

The problem is that there's no Java 6 for Mac OS X, not that it isn't bundled by default.

Edited 2007-10-26 13:38

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RE[3]: where's java 6?
by thryllkill on Fri 26th Oct 2007 13:48 in reply to "RE[2]: where's java 6?"
thryllkill Member since:
2005-07-08

There is a java 6 for mac. It used to be available on the apple developer's site, however now you have to google and scrounge around on message boards to find a user posted (and probably illegally provided) copy of the .dmg.

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RE[2]: where's java 6?
by gsmd on Fri 26th Oct 2007 13:40 in reply to "RE: where's java 6?"
gsmd Member since:
2007-02-02

At least 1.5.0_13 is there.

Edited 2007-10-26 13:41

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RE[2]: where's java 6?
by binarycrusader on Sat 27th Oct 2007 05:54 in reply to "RE: where's java 6?"
binarycrusader Member since:
2005-07-06

Most Linux distributions does not include Java out of the box, because legal reason. This will change very quickly now when Java has been GPL:ed


It has nothing to do with legal reasons and everything to do with GPL zealotry. Sun made it perfectly legal for Linux distributions to redistribute Java almost a year or more ago now.

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the 'cool' and 'elite' thing to do
by nzMM on Sat 27th Oct 2007 06:13 in reply to "RE[2]: where's java 6?"
nzMM Member since:
2006-06-22

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin

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