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Well I'm not sure.
Maybe it's too much work for them to assure the quality on more 
platforms. otoh, running their tests _should_ be enough.
But I tend to think that linux has a wider audience / visibility than 
freebsd.


Phil Helms wrote:

> If it's Sun's fault, why does Linux have Java?
>
> Joris Verschoor wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We run Java on FreeBSD5 too and it's working nicely. We compiled from 
>> source.
>> I have to admit that it's not very simple /  fast to get java 
>> installed (but this is because of sun)
>> We're using resin3
>>
>