Re: apt and java

[Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org>]

Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:52:10 +0200, 
Omry Yadan <omry_y@inter.net.il> wrote: 

> You are exaggerating, java is compiled for Linux, and working
> natively. yes, sun does not officially support debian, but its pretty
> much guarantied to work on a any system which is as Linux as the
> intersection between the two Linux distributions sun does officially
> support, practically meaning any Linux.

Which arches?

Debian support: 

. Intel x86 / IA-32 (« i386 »)
. Motorola 68k (« m68k »)
. Sun SPARC (« sparc »)
. Alpha (« alpha »)
. Motorola/IBM PowerPC (« powerpc »)
. ARM (« arm »)
. MIPS (« mips » and « mipsel »)
. HP PA-RISC (« hppa »)
. IA-64 (« ia64 »)
. S/390 (« s390 »)
. AMD64 and SuperH are in progress

and Debian support non-linux distributions:

. Debian GNU/Hurd (« hurd-i386 »)
. Debian GNU/NetBSD (« netbsd-i386 » and « netbsd-alpha »)
. Debian GNU/KFreeBSD (« kfreebsd-gnu »)

For their latest JDK, Sun supports:

. Windows i586
. Linux i586
. Solaris SPARC 32-bits
. Solaris SPARC 64-bits
. Solaris x86
. Linux AMD64

According to IBM[1]:

  «The next major release of the IBM Developer Kits will be at the Java
  2 Standard Edition version 5.0 level (previously referred to as
  1.5.0), which includes significant functional enhancements as well as
  upgraded Java Virtual Machine and Just-in-Time Compiler
  capabilities. It is likely that the IBM 5.0 Developer Kits will become
  available during 2005.»

For JDK1.4.2, IBM supports:
. AIX -- PowerPC 32-bit and PowerPC 64-bit
. zOS 31-bit
. zOS 64-bit (available soon)
. AS/400 on iSeries
. Windows 32-bit on IA32, 64-bit on Itanium2
  (64-bit for AMD Opteron / Intel EM64T soon)
. Linux 32-bit on IA32, 64-bit on Itanium2,
  (64-bit for AMD Opteron / Intel EM64T soon)
. Linux on PowerPC -- both 32-bit and 64-bit
. Linux on zSeries -- 32-bit and 64-bit

It's fun to see that you must add two major IT company to have the same
offer than free software ;-) (ok, joking ;-)).

Maybe Debian can talk with IBM about having their JDK's in Debian as
they also do a lot of things for free software and it can be a stone in
the Sun's garden (french expression, don't know if it's understandable?!
;-))...

Does someone has a contact at IBM/Java?

[1] http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/other/portingplans.html

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