Ed Greshko wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You guys are both wrong. Fedora does ship F7 and F8 with a small
>>> java version 1.5 which is too old for newer java programs,
I
screwed up here. Version 1.5 is not very old. But for some reason
the java 1.5 on F8 doesn't support installing jedit.
The jre-1.5.0-gcj is what we have built in on F8. It is small in
byte size compared to the downloaded jre-6u3-linux-i586.rpm.
The later rpm seems to put up a local file system in the /usr/java/
directory that is used if you call java from the /bin directory there.
It is just much more capable of supporting java software.
Karl
>>> and that
>>> broken icedtea that does nothing good. But light at the end of the
>>> tunnel. Fedora can make the necessary changes to their design to
>>> allow the method given on the Sun Site to work. I have been doing
>>> the work. Look at my new messages on java.
>>>
>> ----
>> nice of you to weigh in on something you know absolutely nothing about.
>>
> On the contrary - he has given the definitive 'user experience' of
> java on fedora. He knows exactly what that experience is. You may be
> right that it shouldn't be that way...
>
>
Ah, yes...now I understand. 1+1=2 except in cases where it does not
actually equal 1 but may = something less or more than 1 if it happens
to be the 3rd Sunday in a month that has a even numbered Thursday.
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