[SLUG] Java installation Fedora Core 6 question

Stephen O'Neill soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jan 17 22:28:15 GMT 2008


Ross Kendall wrote:
> Go ahead and install the 
> Sun Java, 

If you have some apps that were using GCJ then don't be surprised if one 
or more stop working in my experience, but you can work around that by 
telling them to use GCJ instead of the closed Sun binaries.

> The reason why FC6 doesn't  come with Sun's Java is because it is 
> classed as 'non-free' software (political and licencing reasons, not 
> technical ones).

Agreed.

Steve O





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