Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:20:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199512011920.MAA02056@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <01HY9MH8OJO2005IEM@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at Nov 30, 95 08:37:53 pm
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> Given the BusinessWeek Dec. 4 cover story, "The Software Revolution," > I am curious about whether Java will soon become available for > FreeBSD. > > A port is apparently not a trivial matter. However, there seem to be > quite a few operating systems for which Java is available, including > Solaris, HP-UX (at least soon), the Mac (before too long), and > Windows 95 and Windows NT. And Microsoft is trying to develop > Visual Basic as a competitor to Java (called Blackbird, supposedly > will be ready January 96). > > Support for Java applets (Hot Java) is also available in the latest beta > releases of Netscape for several platforms--not sure if FreeBSD is > covered in any of these. A port of the Sun JAVA code is being made by a group of programmers in the NetBSD camp. NetBSD has most of the multithreading issues taken care of that FreeBSD has yet to address. Since the code will be entirely user space, it will run under NetBSD binary compatability. > Meanwhile supposedly a Linux prerelease port of the Java Developers > Kit is available on ftp://substance.blackdown.org/pub/Java/linux-- > there's also a pointer to this location at > http://www-lf.eb.com/~tdarugar/java.html, which explains the installation > process, necessary libraries, etc. An "elm" distribution is necessary. The Netscape beta support for JAVA works with the Linux version under Linux ABI support. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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