From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 29 18:02:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13047 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 18:02:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13006 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 18:01:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14209; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:01:40 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd014175; Thu Jan 29 19:01:37 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA11071; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:01:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199801300201.TAA11071@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 02:01:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: AdamT@smginc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@mt.sri.com In-Reply-To: <199801300011.RAA13016@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 29, 98 05:11:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > > I'm running a headless box in another room, and I don't want to install X > > on it, and I don't think that should prevent me from doing local admin. > > Ahh, you want a version of java that doesn't require X libs. That's a > bit harder to do, but not impossible. Steve Byrne's Linux port does > that, and if someone has some time to do that I'm not averse to seeing > it done. This requires splitting the classes.zip and making a JNI shared object that is statically linked against the Motif library (IMO). If I ever get enough time to serously hack *on* JAVA as opposed to just hacking JAVA, I'll look at doing this. I have an interest in having a seperate UI implementation class, in any case. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.