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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. 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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    pooptruck
  2. 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.