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Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)



On Tue, Jun 24, 1997 at 03:23:53PM -0400, stick@richnet.net wrote:
> The only Kernel that would *have* to have Java support compiled in would
> be the one on the rescue disks.  The system could install a different kernel
> that would not have JAVA support.

Java support in the Linux kernel doesn't run Java binaries itself,
it just knows to start up the JDK java interpreter (/usr/bin/java
or whatever) if you run a Java binary. Something like perl
is just as platform-inspecific mostly.


Hamish
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