Blackdown Releases a 1.4.1 JDK

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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Re:good stuff from blackdown

[Anonymous Coward]

One minor point - you say it is better than apt-get, but how is having to go to a webpage and click better than typing:

apt-get install package

This also allows you to install more than one program at a time, with all dependencies resolved for you.

apt-get install tuxracer xmms wine mozilla gaim

If I have to find each of these programs webpages and click on a link... well that just doesn't sound as easy or efficient to me.

If you want graphical, there are frontends such as synaptic.