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Topics on all things BSD & Linux including; FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, CentOS, OpenSolaris, Etc.

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

FreeBSD has native Java support!

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Good news for FreeBSD users. Yesterday the FreeBSD foundation announced that they worked out a deal with Sun and can now distribute a compiled binary version of the Jave VM and Dev Kit. This means no more having to download and patch the Linux version of Java to use on FreeBSD. It's designed for FreeBSD 4.8 but should work on all 4.x versions. It won't run on the 5.x line due to some bugs but they're working on getting this corrected quickly.

You can read the whole announcement here but below is a expert:
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20030825-java131.shtml

"Boulder, CO - August 25, 2003 - The FreeBSD Foundation today announced the availability of a binary distribution of the Java JDK version 1.3.1 for the widely used FreeBSD operating system.

Wes Peters of the FreeBSD Core Team commented "This announcement hallmarks a new era of Java support for FreeBSD. Having easy to install binary Java packages will ensure that all users can enjoy the benefits of Java technology on the FreeBSD platform."

Java users can download, without charge, the FreeBSD Foundation's Java distribution from http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml. The FreeBSD Foundation is also providing OEM licenses to FreeBSD distributors, permitting them to ship out-of-the-box Java support with FreeBSD."
Posted by AlanBarber on 08/26/2003 at 09:56 AM
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Monday, July 28, 2003

FreeBSD Ports Collection Hits 9000

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Saw the original post over at BSDForums.Org. It appears that the french/med port gets the honor of being the 9000th port in FreeBSD.

The Ports Collection for those not aware is a system included in FreeBSD that allows the automated process of downloading, unpacking, patching, compiling and installing software.

For example if you wanted to install the apache web server all you have to do is type the following at a command prompt:
# cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 && make install && make clean

The ports system would download all needed files, compile them and then install the executable program. All without you the user doing anything. Pretty neat isn't it!

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Posted by AlanBarber on 07/28/2003 at 01:56 PM
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Wednesday, July 16, 2003

DragonFly BSD - Attack of the Code Fork!

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It appears that Matthew Dillon one of the FreeBSD kernel hackers has decided to start his own distribution of BSD. I saw the news posted over at BSDForums.Org. You can read the news post here.

Called DragonFly BSD it's Based off of the FreeBSD 4.x code line. According to Matthew the projects goal is:

"to move kernel development along an entirely new path towards SMP, and
to completely rewrite the packaging and distribution system."

I already made a post in the forum but let me reiterate and expand my point here.

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Posted by AlanBarber on 07/16/2003 at 10:22 PM
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