Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Even disregarding recompiling (and rewriting in a cross-platform way)
> C++ code, is there even a JVM or Mono interpreter for ARM?

Well duh!! ;) GPL Java (OpenJDK) is available for ARM.

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2009-April/000455.html

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"OpenJDK6 have been known to compile and run on embedded ARM systems
since the summer 2008.

Binaryies are currently shipping with the Debian/Linux ARM "armel"
distribution, the Ubuntu "armel" ARM distribution and various embedded
Linux distributions based on the openembedded infrastructure."
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OpenJDK on Meego/N9/N900
http://wiki.maemo.org/OpenJDK_6.0_0_%28Cambridge_Software_Labs%29_on_N900

Hardware accelerated video on OpenJDK/ARM
http://labb.zafena.se/?p=514

I'm testing a TI Pandaboard with Fedora/17 arm and there's OpenJDK too
http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=219334

So, yes, reports about Java's alleged irrelevance have been greatly
exaggerated ;)

FC