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Java 2 for Linux Released & Blackdown Gets Creds

Posted by Hemos on from the credit-where-it's-due dept.

burner writes, "After quite a wait, JDK1.2.2 is released for Linux. You can grab the final release from Sun's site. Sun has also put up bios for the Blackdown guys. Sun's been acting pretty flippy lately, but this is great news. I've been using Blackdown's latest release candidates lately, and they're excellent, but now there's a final release. Nice work guys! "

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  1. JIT and Java 1.3 by ChrisRijk · · Score: 5
    You may be interested to find that the final release does not (currently) include a JIT JVM, because they were using Inprise's and that's not yet certified. You can download it seperately though.

    There was a JavaLive chat yesterday about the Java on Linux stuff. They haven't put up the transcripts yet though.

    For Java 1.3 from Sun, the Windows version will come out first, then Solaris then Linux. However, they do want to syncronise all releases together and should do this at or before Java 1.4 - might happen first for a maintenance release.