GNU Java vs. Sun Java: What's the difference, what is better?

[Gilles Gravier]

Unfortunately I have no answer to these questions.

I think we need to wait a bit before we start seeing more and more 
different ports of Sun's JDK / JRE to alternative platforms... but 
because it's GPLed, I think the overall result is that more ports will 
be made available for various platforms... all will benefit. That's the 
advantage of the viral license we chose (GPL)... :)

Gilles.

Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On 12/28/06, Gilles Gravier <Gilles at gravier.org> wrote:
>   
>> In any case (and particularly now that we've open-sourced it) I
>> recommend going for Java 1.6 from Sun
>> (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp), either in source
>> form... or in binary form. In any case, it's GPLed and will fit nicely
>> next to a Linux kernel.
>>     
>
> Will there ever be a SUN binary package for PowerPC? Alternatively, do
> you know whether the source will easily compile on non Intel
> architectures?
>
>   

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