Java problems

[Daniel Robitaille]

> > java version "1.4.2"
> > gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu
> > 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
> You are really outdated! sorry to say - you know with Linux you avoid
> antivirus programs and the slow down of that reason. But in expence the
> security rely un that the users update there Linux frequently.

He is not outdated! Do you know that every single Breezy users out
there will have this java installed (via the package " gij-4.0") on
their system?  gij is the free (free as in freedom) version of java;
It is installed by default on Breezy to get things like the OpenOffice
to work properly.  If you try to remove it, you will have to remove
OOo2 and ubuntu-desktop packages among other things.

Why do that?  Because Ubuntu cannot ship Sun's Java due to licensing
issues.  But once an user install Sun's (or IBM's) Java, then you
should see  that newly installed java environment instead of the
default installed gij version when you type the command "java" from
the command line.


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Daniel Robitaille