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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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