From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 8 18:42:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f150.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53BC137BC3D for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 18:42:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 34828 invoked by uid 0); 9 May 2000 01:42:37 -0000 Message-ID: <20000509014237.34827.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 08 May 2000 18:42:36 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: *BSD RULES! (especially if you *VOTE*) Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 21:42:36 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi: If you have not seen my previous emails asking for your vote for a native port of Java on *BSD at Sun's Java Developers Connection (JDC), please vote now (JDC membership is free) at: * http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html If you would like more information, please see: * http://www.freebsd.org/java If have voted already, THANK YOU. Did you know that you have 3 votes? (unethical? Hey I don't make the rules) Now for some statistics: Since my first message about 3 weeks ago, nearly 400 votes have been recorded for the Java on FreeBSD Request for Enhancement (RFE), an increase of 13.4%! Our RFE now has 4 times as many votes as the #2 RFE, and as many votes as the next 8. The more votes that we can get, the more powerful is the *BSD message to Sun. FYI: IBM has announced an "early release" of JDK 1.3 on Linux. Several *BSD friendly folks have started requesting a port of the IBM JDK in the discussion forum at: * http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/discussion?ReadForm&/forum/linuxjdk.nsf/discussion?createdocument (Look for "FreeBSD support" in the Linux-JDK-1.3.0 discussion list.) This will be my last "get out the vote" message for a while, as I think that I have reached most people who care to vote. Lastly, I would like to thank the FreeBSD Java porting team once again for their outstanding efforts. I, myself, am not a part of the java porting team, just a user who would like to use a native port and support the *BSD platform. John PS Please forward this message to any person, list, or organization that may want to support this effort. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message