Re: mozilla that works
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Herman Robak wrote:
| On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 16:38, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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|>Herman Robak wrote:
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|>| And the Java packages in Debian stable are truly
|>| ancient. You pretty much have to use unofficial
|>| packages, or forego anything more involved than
|>| running Java applets.
|>
|>What is your point in the above?
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| Java applets and precompiled Java apps are just
| a subset of the Java universe. If you only have
| JRE, not JDK, your capabilties are limited.
| You can't teach Java programming with just JRE,
| for example.
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|>I suggested discussing with debian-legal@ the possibility of legally
|>packaging and redistributing a newer version of SUN's JRE.
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| And vented my frustrations with Java and Debian
| in general. I don't blame Debian. I'm just not
| very happy about the situation.
I perfectly agree.
Personally I usually prefer using those "unofficial" packages
contiuously published by Debian as part of the unreleased distributions
"sarge" and "sid" in favor of other, less trustworthy ones floating
around on the 'net.
~ - Jonas
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