Re: What is the best java for debian-amd64 ?
Allow me to unrecommend Blackdown JRE 1.4.2. Unfortunately, the
maintainers of xul-runner have seen fit to conflict with every version
of jre 1.4.2.
Your choices are to force reinstallation of Blackdown 1.4.2 after every
dist-upgrade or install it outside of package management.
Those of us stuck with legacy applications on modern OS's are in a bind
with this situation.
-s
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:27 +0200, Simon Vos wrote:
> The java-6-openjdk is the one I use. It is the completely open version
> of the JDK released by sun under the GPL. In fact it is IcedTea, which
> is a project created to have a complete open JDK. The source release by
> Sun was not complete, since some parts of their source were not their
> intelectual property. For these parts of the source Sun added binaries,
> the IcedTea project re-implemented the non-open parts.
>
> For as far as I have used the java-6-openjdk it seems to me that it is
> complete. I think I read online that IcedTea had passed the TCK (the
> java compatibility test) and it is completely open-source. Also, it is
> the default default java alternative in debian I think..
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Simon
>
> Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > as there are many java versions installable, what is the best one to use in
> > amd64-systems ? What are the differences ? I saw gcj, gij, gdk, java. Can
> > someone tell me, which should be used ? Ia ma very confused.
> > Update-alternatives is giving me these choices:
> >
> > There are 8 alternatives which provide `java'.
> >
> > Selection Alternative
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > 1 /usr/bin/gij-4.1
> > 2 /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
> > 3 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java
> > 4 /usr/bin/gij-4.3
> > * 5 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
> > 6 /usr/bin/gij-4.2
> > 7 /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java
> > + 8 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java
> >
> > Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number:
> >
> > I choose 5. What is this "+"-sign meaning ?
> >
> > Questions, questions, questions....
> >
> > Thanks for any help !
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Hans-J. Ullrich
> >
> >
> >
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