Re: Does Debian support non free JVM's? (was: Re: Bug#273560: ant: test-reports fails with JDK 1.5)

[Chasecreek Systemhouse <chasecreek.systemhouse@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:17:07 +0100, Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org> wrote:

>   So our users seems to need JDK1.5 (or should I call it JDK5.0?) but
> it's clear it's not free software at all! Also, if we support non free
> JDK's, I doubt people will test free JVM's and file bug reports against
> them (and that's what we need more: this simple test case works with non
> free JVM, but it does not work with free JVM). All these little
> test cases improves free JVM's a lot to find bugs and things not working
> as it should.


Using kaffe and SableVM I am slowly working toward getting OX (which
very SUN Java-centric and Intel Linux oriented) working on Debian 3.1
Ultrasparc.

[1. http://open-xchange.org ]

The OX developers seem to think it is possible -- but they want me to
donate my only U10 to prove it.  Does anyone within the Debian realm
have an extra one lying around?

Mine's a U10 333MHz with 1GB RAM and twin 9GB 7,200rpm HDs ...

Debian cranks on it!  =)

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