On Thursday 18 February 1999, at 17 h 36, the keyboard of Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Kaffe is a GPL'ed, fast, JIT, JDK 1.1 and nearly 1.2 compliant VM and > class library. The Debian package of Kaffe is unsusable. See its bug list for a start <http://bugs.debian.org/kaffe>. One "important" bug is 407 days old. Note there is no known maintainer. [I'm teaching Java on a Debian machine. Advices are welcome, but they should be backed on experience.]