java jvm/jdk

Fábio Mendes niels_bohr at uol.com.br
Sat Nov 6 23:02:55 CST 2004


Em Sáb, 2004-11-06 às 22:39 -0600, Kapil Thangavelu escreveu:
> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 17:25 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > Not so far, but we'll most likely look into distribution of the Sun and
> > IBM JVMs.
> > 
> 
> fwiw. i believe that the ibm jvm is redistributable, gentoo for example
> redistributes it. additionally its available for ppc linux. i've noticed
> some minor compatiblity issues with some software which expects certain
> sun specific features, but on a whole it works well.
> 
> -kapil
> 

This would be great news. Maybe we should talk to IBM first! Will ubuntu
tech board make an policy exception to this if IBM accepts the project
could distribute it?

Fabio



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