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From: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
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To: jehamby@lightside.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com
Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0beta1 - Port of HotJava to FreeBSD and NetBSD More 
 Usefull?
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   > >>> Jake Hamby said:
   > 
   >  > 
   >  > I heard there was some fairly good progress being made on a Linux port.
   >  > Is this true?  Because if the Linux people have a working version, then a
   >  > FreeBSD/NetBSD version would be almost trivial from there.
   >  > 
   > 
   > Thats right people are still porting Java 8)

Is it possible to get a snapshot of that effort to get more familiar
with the problems. I tried starting from the Sun release but the mailfile
problems looked like a lot of work. I would hope that by now the Sun makefile
dependancies have been removed and the problems are more related to stuff like
the the thread libraries.


-pete