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Blackdown Releases a 1.4.1 JDK

Posted by michael on from the choices-choices dept.

gholmer writes "The Blackdown project has finally released a production version of Java 1.4.1 for both ix86 and Sparc on Linux. This much-awaited release gives Linux users another choice for Java besides Sun's and IBM's."

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  1. You can get all of IBM's JDKs here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You can get all of IBM's JDKs here

  2. Re:gcj? by smileyy · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're talking about the native compilation aspect of gcj, there's a goodly number of things that won't work when compiled with gcj. Most notable is Swing.

    If you're talking about the bytecode compilation aspect of gcj, then you still need a JVM to run those bytecodes in.

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  3. they already have a superior option by HaiLHaiL · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.bea.com/products/weblogic/jrockit/index .shtml

    awesome server side JVM

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  4. Re:Finally! A JDK compiled with GCC 3.2! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    So compile Sun's JDK yourself. Yes, you CAN do that. Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot who hasn't actually looked into it.

  5. Re:The other way around by mythr · · Score: 4, Informative

    J++ was never the problem. The problem was the broken Java VM that was being distributed with Windows. It's the same thing that happened with IE, actually. Few people would actually go out of their way to install the real VM, so Java was broken on a large share of the computers out there.

  6. Re:gcj? by damiam · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes. You might have to distribute it with the cygwin DLL, but the user wouldn't need a full cygwin installation.

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  7. Re:Comparison to Sun's Java? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    PowerPC linux does not have binaries from Sun. IBM and Blackdown have binaries for PowerPC Linux. IBM Java is much better than Blackdown Java preformance wise.