Is there any non free thing in Ubuntu Kernel

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Tue, February 7, 2012 21:19, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 02/07/2012 09:53 AM, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

>> I ran vrms on my Debian box and all I got was this:
>>
>> amedee at intrepid:~$ vrms
>>                Non-free packages installed on intrepid
>>
>> sun-java6-bin             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
>> (architecture
>> sun-java6-jre             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
>> (architecture
>>
>>    2 non-free packages, 0.2% of 950 installed packages.
>>
>>
>> It seems like I could do without Sun's Java because I have OpenJDK
>> installed.
>>
>> amedee at intrepid:~$ sudo update-java-alternatives -l
>> java-6-openjdk 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
>> java-6-sun 63 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
>
> You'll need OpenJDK version 7 to get closer to full java. Ric

That's an ambiguous statement, Ric. Please define "full java" in this
context. As you may or may not know, OpenJDK 7 (the reference
implementation) was the basis for a backwards branch to create OpenJDK 6.
I don't know how much more "full java" you can get. Or are you talking
about SNMP support? That's not even mandatory according to the Java
language specification.

Anything written for Java 6 *should* work with OpenJDK 6. If not then it's
usually not Java (Sun/Oracle/OpenJDK) who is to blame but bad Java
application developers.

My 0.02€

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Amedee