Open JDK 7 doesn't have 64 bit package or a mozilla plugin?

[Ric Moore]

On 12/25/2011 10:30 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 20:55 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 12/25/2011 06:30 PM, Craig White wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure why anyone would actually want to run the closed binary
>>> from oracle when they can run the open source version from their own
>>> distribution. I sort of thought that is the point of open source anyway.
>>
>> Craig, crack open synaptic and do the usual java search for the Oracle
>> Java JDK ... ain't there no mo. OpenJDK 6 has been a POS for my needs.
> ----
> of course you won't find oracle's java (either jre or jdk) in any Linux
> distribution since it is binary only.
>
> The whole point of openjdk was to deploy a completely open source
> version of java.
>
> Now I would suspect that your rendered judgment of openjdk being a POS
> probably stems from some ancient version that probably didn't have the
> muscle for running some java based web app but for at least a year now,
> it should be enough to satisfy the needs of about 90% of the Linux
> users.

Sure, Joe and Jane Lunchbucket use it mainly for their browsers. But, 
it's the 10% that couldn't use it that have to resort to using the 
Oracle Version. And, I'm talking version 6 here. Not ancient history.

> I haven't checked Ubuntu's versions but I know that Fedora's eclipse
> development and tomcat use openjdk and are quite functional.
>
> If there is something that you can't do with openjdk and/or
> icedtea6-plugin at this point, I would be surprised.

Well, what I am doing involves 3D graphics. 3D worlds. Trust me, Open 
JDK doesn't work with intensive graphical accelerated applications. I'm 
in my third year in a beta of what is now called "Open Wonderland", 
which was originally a Sun Project. And, whatever is being called in it, 
doesn't work 100% with OpenJDK version 6. The client screens, after 
logging in, go black.

> Then if you toss in the distinct advantage of having timely updates
> automatically installed whenever you update, code that is openly audited
> and monitored for security issues I think you can figure out that their
> are distinct advantages to openjdk.
>
> Craig
>
>


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