From owner-freebsd-java Wed Aug 15 6:47:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from veck.ecad.org (veck.ecad.org [209.61.188.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D2137B416 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:47:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jev@ecad.org) Received: by veck.ecad.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00B6D482D54; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:50:14 +0100 (IST) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:50:14 +0100 From: 'Jev' To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: java status and Message-ID: <20010815145014.A87951@ecad.org> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9EB2@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9EB2@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:37:05PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:37:05PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Time. They are negotiating a license agreement with Nate Williams, who > represents the FreeBSD community as a whole in this matter. > > The going is slow, but there is progress. Patience, grasshopper. If you are > a lawyer you could contact Nate and offer your help. :) Nope, Im not a lawyer :) > > `-> Is there any way of convincing them to support FreeBSD? > They are already convinced. As part of their announcement that Linux would > be a fully supported platform for the JDK at ApacheCon Europe 2000 they gave > me a slice of their presentation time to talk about the status of the > FreeBSD native port. Great! :) > > `-> I heard there were certain requirements that an OS has to > > meet before being supported, what are these requirements? > I don't know where you heard this. Any solid references? I thought I read that in this lists archives, I must have been mistaken. > The FreeBSD 4.x kernel has no kernel threads. The JDKs rely on kernel > threads Does -CURRENT have threads? Regards, -Jev -- http://www.ecad.org/~jev/jev.gpg Key fingerprint = 748B 2346 1683 6384 5E8D 4EE3 0807 EADB 999E AB95 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message