[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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